1860 3 Homer Prints, First "Uncommercial Traveller" Dickens, Broadway — Feb 18

🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · February 18, 1860
Complete Issue · New York

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A collector's issue of exceptional significance — three Winslow Homer illustrations in a single issue, the first installment of Charles Dickens's The Uncommercial Traveller serialized in America, a magnificent winter Broadway double-page centerfold, and Pope Pius IX. Three Homer works and a Dickens first installment in one complete newspaper — one of the richest single issues of the 1860 run.

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🎨 THREE WINSLOW HOMER PRINTS
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🖼️ THREE ILLUSTRATIONS — WINSLOW HOMER
Three Winslow Homer illustrations in a single issue — a rare concentration of early Homer work that adds this February 18, 1860 issue to the remarkable run of Homer prints that began with "Skating at Boston" in March 1859. The three works are:

🖊️ **FRONT PAGE — UNCAPTIONED HOMER ILLUSTRATION**
A small uncaptioned illustration by Winslow Homer on the front page — an early genre or social scene in Homer's developing style, whose exact subject will be visible in the photographs. An original early Homer work in a complete original issue.

👩‍⚕️ **FRONT PAGE — "ALLOW ME TO EXAMINE THE YOUNG LADY" — BY WINSLOW HOMER**
A front-page Homer illustration captioned "Allow Me to Examine the Young Lady" — a social comedy or genre scene, likely depicting a doctor's examination or a social examination, capturing Homer's characteristic warmth and wit in human social situations. A vivid piece of Victorian American genre illustration.

👤 **ILLUSTRATION — "HON. J.M. CURRY OF ALABAMA" — BY WINSLOW HOMER**
A Homer-drawn portrait of Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry — the Alabama congressman who would go on to serve as a Confederate officer, then as the primary administrator of the Peabody Education Fund and the Slater Fund, becoming one of the most influential figures in post-war Southern education. The Homer attribution of a congressional portrait is unusual and significant. A notable piece of Antebellum Alabama political history.

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📚 CHARLES DICKENS — "THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER" — FIRST INSTALLMENT
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✍️ FIRST INSTALLMENT — "THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER" BY CHARLES DICKENS
The first American installment of The Uncommercial Traveller — the series of personal essays by Charles Dickens that had begun appearing in his own journal All the Year Round in London in January 1860 and were being simultaneously serialized in Harper's Weekly. The Uncommercial Traveller is one of Dickens's most personal and autobiographical works — a series of sketches in which "the Uncommercial Traveller" wanders London and the English countryside, observing and reflecting on the social conditions of Victorian life. Just months after the final installment of A Tale of Two Cities, this first installment of The Uncommercial Traveller marks the continuation of Dickens's extraordinary relationship with Harper's Weekly — and this issue is the primary American published document of that new work's debut. A significant piece of Victorian literary history.

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🌆 WINTER BROADWAY — DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD
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🏙️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — "VIEW OF BROADWAY, OPPOSITE FULTON STREET, NEW YORK" — IN WINTER
A magnificent double-page centerfold of Broadway opposite Fulton Street in winter — one of the most vivid and displayable New York City illustrations in this entire 1859-1860 run. The intersection of Broadway and Fulton Street was at the very heart of commercial New York in 1860 — the great dry goods stores, newspaper offices, and commercial establishments of lower Broadway crowding the street with carriages, pedestrians, and the energy of the greatest city in the Western Hemisphere in its winter dress. A beautiful, significant, and very frameable piece of New York City history and antebellum urban life.

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⛪ POPE PIUS IX
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⛪ ILLUSTRATION — "POPE PIUS THE NINTH"
An illustration of Pope Pius IX — whose temporal power was being stripped away by the Italian Risorgimento even as this issue went to press, making every 1860 portrait of the Pope a primary document of the last years of papal temporal authority. A significant piece of Victorian Catholic history.

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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 ··············· February 18, 1860
City ··············· New York
Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages

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