Artist Winslow Homer, American, 1836-1910
Title
  • The Life Line
Date 1884
Medium etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 13 × 17 7/8 inches (33 × 45.4 cm)
Sheet: 16 3/4 × 21 1/4 inches (42.5 × 54 cm)
Credit Line Gift of John S. Newberry
Accession Number 36.42
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: HOMER 1884
Signed, lower right: Winslow HOMER
Marks Watermark: VAN GELDER
Inscriptions Inscribed, in plate, preceding the signature, lower right: Copyright 1884
John S. Newberry;
1936-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Bulletin of the DIA 15, 6 (1936): pp. 92-93 (ill.).