1859 Winslow Homer "August in the Country" Smithsonian, Whale at Flushing Aug 27

🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · August 27, 1859
Complete Issue · New York

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A collector's issue anchored by the fifth Winslow Homer illustration in this extraordinary 1859 run — "August in the Country: The Seashore," published by the 23-year-old Homer in the final months before his move to New York City that would launch his career as one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century. Combined with a whale found near Flushing, Long Island and a continuing Dickens serialization, this is a warm and collectible summer issue.

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🎨 WINSLOW HOMER — "AUGUST IN THE COUNTRY: THE SEASHORE"
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🌊 FULL PAGE — "AUGUST IN THE COUNTRY: THE SEASHORE" — BY WINSLOW HOMER
A full-page wood engraving by Winslow Homer — the fifth Homer illustration in Harper's Weekly in the space of six months, following "Skating at Boston" (March 12, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum), "March Winds" and "April Showers" (April 2, held by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Clark Art Institute), and "May Day in the Country" (April 30). Homer was 23 years old when this appeared — still working from Boston, in the final months before his move to New York City in the fall of 1859 — and "August in the Country: The Seashore" continues his early focus on seasonal American leisure and outdoor life that would define his career for the next five decades. The seashore subjects he documented in these early Harper's Weekly prints — people at play beside the sea, the rhythms of coastal life — would eventually become the great subjects of his mature oil paintings, from the Prout's Neck seascapes to the Gloucester fishing scenes. This remarkable 1859 concentration of Homer works — five major prints in six months — is the foundation of one of the greatest careers in American art. An original print in a complete original issue — not a reproduction — of an early work by one of the greatest American painters.

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🐳 THE WHALE AT FLUSHING
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🐳 FRONT PAGE — "THE WHALE FOUND NEAR FLUSHING, LONG ISLAND"
A front-page illustration of a whale found near Flushing, Long Island — one of the periodic whale strandings or captures in New York Harbor waters that drew enormous crowds and generated immediate press coverage. A vivid and charming piece of Long Island natural history and Victorian New York maritime life.

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📚 CHARLES DICKENS — "A TALE OF TWO CITIES" CONTINUES
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✍️ CONTINUING SERIALIZATION — "A TALE OF TWO CITIES" BY CHARLES DICKENS
A continuing installment of A Tale of Two Cities — now approaching its climax as the serialization neared its final installments in the autumn of 1859.

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I photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and don't hesitate to ask any questions — I'm happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you buy.

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Publication ········ Harper's Weekly
Date ··············· August 27, 1859
City ··············· New York
Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages

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