1874 Winslow Homer Flirting Sea-Shore, Nast Centerfold, Indians — Sep 19
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🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 19, 1874
Complete Issue + 4-Page Supplement · New York
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A premier collectible issue anchored by a celebrated Winslow Homer full page, a large Thomas Nast double-page centerfold, dramatic Native American warfare scenes, and a charming front page school illustration by Frank Church. One of the strongest issues of the 1874 run for collectors of American art and Gilded Age political history.
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🎨 WINSLOW HOMER
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🎨 FULL PAGE — WINSLOW HOMER: "FLIRTING ON THE SEA-SHORE, AND ON THE MEADOW"
The crown jewel of the issue — and one of Homer's most beloved Harper's Weekly prints. A full-page composition pairing two scenes of summer courtship: young couples flirting on the sea-shore and on the meadow, rendered with Homer's characteristic lightness, humor, and mastery of light and atmosphere. This print captures the essence of the Gilded Age summer — leisure, youth, romance, and the American shore — in a way that no other illustrator of the era could match. Homer's Harper's Weekly work from this period is among the most sought-after American illustration of the 19th century. This is an original woodblock print, not a reproduction.
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🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE
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🏫 FULL FRONT PAGE — FRANK CHURCH: "A VILLAGE PUBLIC SCHOOL — THE YOUNG ORATOR"
A charming and warmly detailed front page by Frank Church — a gifted Harper's illustrator best known today as the author of the famous "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus" editorial. A young student orates before his schoolmates in a scene that captures the Victorian ideal of public education and youthful promise.
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✏️ THOMAS NAST
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🗡️ DOUBLE-PAGE CENTERFOLD — THOMAS NAST: "THE SAME OLD PIRATE AFLOAT AGAIN"
A large-format double-page centerfold by Thomas Nast — the most feared political cartoonist of the Gilded Age. Spanning the full open breadth of the newspaper, this sweeping composition takes aim at a recurring political villain — a pirate reborn, corrupt and unrepentant. Nast's double-page centerfolds are among his most dramatic and impactful works.
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🏹 NATIVE AMERICAN SCENES
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🚂 FULL PAGE — "SKETCHES OF INDIAN WARFARE"
A full page containing two dramatic illustrations of the ongoing conflict between Native Americans and westward expansion:
· "A Chief Forbidding the Passage of a Train Through His Country" — a powerful image of a Native American chief confronting a locomotive — one of the iconic visual metaphors of the era's collision between Indigenous sovereignty and American expansion
· "Scalp Dance" — a ceremonial dance scene rendered in the dramatic Victorian illustrative tradition
Published at a moment of intense national focus on the Indian Wars, these illustrations are significant primary documents of how Americans in 1874 perceived and depicted Native peoples and the conflicts of the frontier.
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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 ··············· September 19, 1874
City ··············· New York
Item Number ········ 173862
Pages ·············· Complete · 16 pages + 4-page Supplement
Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper
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📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION
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• Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 151-year-old newsprint
• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement to ensure safe arrival of the supplement pages
• Fully tracked for your peace of mind
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1874 Winslow Homer Flirting Sea-Shore, Nast Centerfold, Indians — Sep 19
$222.22