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Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake

A work made of etching and aquatint with lavis, stopping-out, scraping, and burnishing, on moderately thick, smooth, cream simulated japanese vellum.
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  • A work made of etching and aquatint with lavis, stopping-out, scraping, and burnishing, on moderately thick, smooth, cream simulated japanese vellum.

Date:

1889

Artist:

Winslow Homer
American, 1835-1910

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Winslow Homer

Title

Fly Fishing, Saranac Lake

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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1889

Medium

Etching and aquatint with lavis, stopping-out, scraping, and burnishing, on moderately thick, smooth, cream simulated Japanese vellum

Dimensions

Image: 35.8 × 51.8 cm (14 1/8 × 20 7/16 in.); Plate: 44 × 56.5 cm (17 3/8 × 22 1/4 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 70 cm (19 15/16 × 27 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Print and Drawing Fund; William McCallin McKee Memorial and John H. Wrenn Memorial endowments; Mr. and Mrs. T. Stanton Armour Fund; Sara R. Shorey, Suzanne Lord Folds, Stanley Field, John Brooks Fair, Robert M. Chase, Albert H. Wolf, Mary S. Adams, Joseph Ryerson, Helen Davis Baily, Everett D. Graff, Henry M. Huxley, Claudia S. Cassell and Hannan Fund endowments; Robert & Leah Hamman, Alan Rutenberg, Mr. & Mrs. Phil Heller, Marjorie Glaser and Herbert Molner discretionary funds

Reference Number

2007.12

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