1860 Winslow Homer "On the Beach," Final Dickens Installment, NY Bay Gale Mar 10

🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · March 10, 1860
Complete Issue · New York

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A historically varied Antebellum issue — a Winslow Homer beach scene, the fourth and final installment of Dickens's The Uncommercial Traveller, a dramatic New York Bay winter gale, a Virginia senator who would become Confederate Secretary of State, and the New York Metropolitan Police chief. Homer's sixteenth published work in the extraordinary 1859-1860 run, combined with the close of Dickens's second serialization in Harper's Weekly.

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🎨 WINSLOW HOMER — "ON THE BEACH"
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🌊 SMALL ILLUSTRATION — "ON THE BEACH" — BY WINSLOW HOMER
A small illustration by Winslow Homer of a beach scene — his sixteenth published work in Harper's Weekly spanning the extraordinary 1859-1860 run that began with "Skating at Boston" (March 1859, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smithsonian American Art Museum) and included the celebrated "Skating on the Ladies' Skating Pond in Central Park" centerfold (January 28, 1860, held in five major museum collections). "On the Beach" is an early example of Homer's lifelong fascination with the American seashore — the subject that would eventually define his greatest mature work, from the Prout's Neck oils to the Gloucester watercolors. This small beach scene, published in the winter of 1860 while Homer was still based in Boston, is a primary document of the earliest development of one of the defining preoccupations of his career. An original early Homer illustration in a complete original issue — not a reproduction.

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📚 DICKENS — FINAL INSTALLMENT
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✍️ FOURTH AND FINAL INSTALLMENT — "THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER" BY CHARLES DICKENS
The fourth and final American installment of The Uncommercial Traveller — closing Dickens's second serialization in Harper's Weekly, just months after the conclusion of A Tale of Two Cities. This issue is the primary American published document of the final chapter of The Uncommercial Traveller as first read by American audiences — a significant piece of Victorian literary history.

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🌊 THE GALE IN NEW YORK BAY
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💨 FULL PAGE — "THE GALE OF FEBRUARY 10TH IN NEW YORK BAY"
A full-page illustration of the great winter gale of February 10, 1860 in New York Bay — a dramatic piece of New York maritime and meteorological history, capturing the furious storms that periodically battered the harbor and its shipping. A vivid piece of Victorian American weather and maritime history.

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🖼️ INSIDE THE ISSUE
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🏛️ FRONT PAGE — "HON. ROBERT M.T. HUNTER, U.S. SENATOR FROM VIRGINIA"
A front-page portrait of Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter — the Virginia senator who would resign from the U.S. Senate when Virginia seceded in 1861, serve as Confederate Secretary of State, and participate in the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865. Hunter was one of the most powerful Southern Democrats in the Senate and a significant figure in the Antebellum South's political leadership. Published just fourteen months before Virginia's secession, this portrait is a primary document of Confederate history in its making. A significant piece of Civil War origins and Confederate political history.

👮 PORTRAIT — "GEN. AMOS PILLSBURY, CHIEF OF THE NEW YORK METROPOLITAN POLICE"
A portrait of General Amos Pillsbury — the chief of the New York Metropolitan Police, a significant piece of New York City law enforcement history at a moment when the Metropolitan Police were still establishing their authority following the famous Police Riot of 1857.

⛴️ ILLUSTRATION — "THE STEAMER 'PEYTONA'"
An illustration of the steamship Peytona — a vivid piece of Antebellum American maritime and river transportation 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 ··············· March 10, 1860
City ··············· New York
Format ············· Illustrated newspaper, complete in 16 pages

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