1860 Two Winslow Homer Prints "Sleighing Upset" & "Snow Slide" Met, Smithsonian

🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · January 14, 1860
Complete Issue · New York

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A collector's issue of exceptional significance — two full-page Winslow Homer winter prints in a single issue, both held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery. Homer's eleventh and twelfth major Harper's Weekly illustrations, published just months before his move to New York City that launched his career. Two museum-held Homer prints in one complete original issue — extraordinarily rare and highly collectible.

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🎨 TWO WINSLOW HOMER PRINTS
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🛷 FULL PAGE — "THE SLEIGHING SEASON — THE UPSET" — BY WINSLOW HOMER
A full-page wood engraving by Winslow Homer — held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Accession No. 1996.63.37, The Ray Austrian Collection, image: 9 3⁄8 × 13 3⁄4 in.), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery; cataloged as Beam No. 61 in Philip C. Beam's authoritative "Winslow Homer's Magazine Engravings" (1979); also cataloged in Barbara Gelman's "The Wood Engravings of Winslow Homer" (1969), cat. no. 82; and actively sold by the Philadelphia Print Shop as a collectible fine art print. The scene depicts a winter sleighing upset — a horse-drawn sleigh overturned on an icy street, its passengers tumbled into the snow — capturing the humor, danger, and social energy of winter sleighing culture in Victorian New York with Homer's characteristic warmth and precision. A vivid, warm, and very frameable piece of Victorian American winter life.

❄️ FULL PAGE — "A SNOW SLIDE IN THE CITY" — BY WINSLOW HOMER
A companion full-page wood engraving by Winslow Homer — held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Accession No. 1996.63.38, The Ray Austrian Collection, image: 9 3⁄8 × 13 7⁄8 in.) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art; cataloged as Beam No. 62 in Philip C. Beam's authoritative reference; and actively sold by the Philadelphia Print Shop as a collectible fine art print. The scene depicts a dramatic avalanche of snow sliding off a city building onto the street below — a vivid and humorous piece of New York winter street life, capturing the urban hazards of a snowy city with Homer's characteristic eye for the comic and the human.

Together the two prints form one of the finest matched pairs of Homer winter scenes in the Harper's Weekly run — both held in the same Smithsonian collection, both cataloged in the same authoritative references, both published in the same issue. An original issue containing two museum-held Homer prints — not reproductions — of exceptional collecting significance.

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🏇 NAPOLEON III AND EMPRESS EUGÉNIE HUNTING
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🦌 FULL PAGE — "THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF FRANCE HUNTING AT COMPIEGNE"
A full-page illustration of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie on the imperial hunt at Compiègne — the great royal forest north of Paris where the Second Empire court held its famous autumn hunting parties, one of the most celebrated social events in European aristocratic life. A vivid and very frameable piece of Second Empire French royal and sporting history.

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📋 CONDITION
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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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📌 DETAILS
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Publication ········ Harper's Weekly
Date ··············· January 14, 1860
City ··············· New York
Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages

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• Stored in an acid-free protective bag and flat-shipped in a padded envelope with heavy cardboard reinforcement
• Fully tracked for your peace of mind

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