Watch-Tower, Corner of Spring and Varick Streets, New York
Series TitleHarper's Weekly, 28 February 1874
Artist After
Winslow Homer
(American, 1836 - 1910)
Date1874
MediumWood engraving; five blocks
DimensionsImage: 13 11/16 × 9 1/16 inches (34.77 × 23.01 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 7/16 inches (41.28 × 29.01 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/4 × 11 7/16 inches (41.28 × 29.01 cm)
Credit LineGift of John Donnelly
Object numberF90-24/13
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionFive views: top, The Watchman, seated man sighting through telescope through right of three windows in office with table, bright lamp, and stove, bottom left, tower with open, spiral staircase behind buildings, one marked "Meat Market"; bottom center, man ascending winding stair, below bell, beneath column-supported dome; top right, uniformed man operating lever in front of stove; bottom right, fire engine seen from rear, traveling up building-flanked city street.
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