1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12

1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12

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1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
  • 1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12
1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12

1874 Winslow Homer Seesaw Gloucester, Baseball in England — Sep 12

$234.56
🗞️ HARPER'S WEEKLY · September 12, 1874 Complete Issue + Supplement Pages · New York ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ An exceptional issue — one of the strongest of the entire 1874 run. A Winslow Homer full page leads the collectible content, paired with two rare baseball illustrations documenting the first American baseball tour of England, three Black Hills expedition prints capturing the moment gold was discovered in Custer's Gulch, and a striking array of genre and travel illustrations throughout. A must for collectors of American art, baseball history, and Western Americana. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ THE FRONT PAGE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 FULL FRONT PAGE — "THE WELCOME" A warm and engaging full front page scene — the kind of inviting Victorian genre image that anchors the issue beautifully. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 WINSLOW HOMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎨 FULL PAGE — WINSLOW HOMER: "SEESAW — GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS" The crown jewel of the issue. A full-page Winslow Homer original illustration — one of his celebrated Gloucester series capturing childhood, summer, and the New England coast with his characteristic lightness and mastery of composition. Homer's Harper's Weekly work from this period is among the most sought-after American illustration of the 19th century, and his Gloucester scenes in particular are beloved by collectors of American art. This is an original woodblock print, not a reproduction. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚾ BASEBALL IN ENGLAND ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚾ FULL PAGE — "THE AMERICAN BASEBALL PLAYERS IN ENGLAND — MATCH BETWEEN THE RED STOCKINGS AND THE ATHLETICS" A full-page illustration documenting the landmark 1874 summer tour — the first time American professional baseball teams played abroad. The Boston Red Stockings and Philadelphia Athletics traveled to England to introduce the game to British audiences, playing both baseball and cricket matches. This illustration is a primary document of one of the most significant moments in baseball history — the game's first international ambassador moment. ⚾ HALF PAGE — "THE MAPLE LEAF BASEBALL CLUB OF GUELPH, ONTARIO, CANADA" A half-page group portrait of the Maple Leaf Club players in uniform with bats — a wonderful and rare document of early Canadian baseball history. The Guelph Maple Leafs were one of the strongest amateur clubs in North America in this era. A significant collectible for Canadian sports history as well as early baseball collectors. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏔️ THE BLACK HILLS — GOLD DISCOVERY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Three prints documenting the Black Hills Expedition of 1874 — General Custer's fateful survey that triggered the Black Hills Gold Rush and ultimately led to the Great Sioux War: ⛏️ "CAMP WHERE GOLD WAS FIRST DISCOVERED — CUSTER GULCH ON THE LEFT" The most historically significant of the three — depicting the precise camp where gold was first found during Custer's expedition, the discovery that would ignite a gold rush, shatter the Fort Laramie Treaty, and set in motion the chain of events leading to the Battle of the Little Bighorn just two years later. A genuine primary document of American Western history. 🏕️ Two additional Black Hills Expedition scenes rounding out the coverage. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🖼️ ADDITIONAL ILLUSTRATIONS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏥 FULL PAGE — "THE FLOATING HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN'S GUILD" A full-page illustration of the pioneering floating hospital that brought poor New York children out to sea air for relief from summer heat and disease — one of the great Gilded Age charitable institutions and a fascinating piece of New York social history. 🪨 HALF PAGE — "LIMESTONE IN KANSAS" A half-page geological and landscape illustration of the Kansas limestone formations — a document of the era's intense interest in the American West's natural wonders. 🐚 HALF PAGE — "PEARL FISHING AT CEYLON" A half-page illustration of pearl divers at work off the coast of Ceylon (modern-day Sri Lanka) — a vivid Victorian travel and industry scene from the far reaches of the British Empire. 🚢 MULTI-SCENE — "ON THE VOYAGE TO GIBRALTAR" Comic sketches of shipboard life en route to Gibraltar — lively, humorous, and packed with Victorian character. 🐎 FULL PAGE — "ESCAPED — AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR" A dramatic, atmospheric full-page illustration of figures in urgent flight on horseback through a dark landscape — a powerful Civil War or conflict narrative scene. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📋 CONDITION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 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. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Publication ········ Harper's Weekly Date ··············· September 12, 1874 City ··············· New York Item Number ········ 173860 Pages ·············· Complete · 16 pages + Supplement Format ············· Illustrated folio newspaper ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📦 SHIPPING & PRESERVATION ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔍 SEO TAGS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Winslow Homer original print, Winslow Homer Harper's Weekly, Winslow Homer Gloucester, Winslow Homer seesaw, Winslow Homer 1874, American art antique print, Homer children illustration, Homer New England print, baseball in England 1874, Red Stockings Athletics England, first baseball England tour, baseball history antique print, 1874 baseball Harper's Weekly, Maple Leaf Guelph baseball, Canadian baseball history, early baseball Canada, Black Hills gold discovery, Custer Black Hills expedition, Custer Gulch gold, Black Hills gold rush 1874, Great Sioux War origins, Black Hills 1874 print, Fort Laramie Treaty, floating hospital St Johns Guild, New York charity Victorian, pearl fishing Ceylon, Ceylon pearl divers Victorian, limestone Kansas illustration, Gibraltar voyage Victorian, Harper's Weekly 1874, antique newspaper 1874, Victorian illustrated newspaper, Gilded Age newspaper, antique illustration engraving, Victorian wall art, framing quality print, Winslow Homer collector, baseball collector antique, Western Americana history, American art original print, history lover gift, rare newspaper collectible, museum quality ephemera, Gilded Age ephemera, Homer Gloucester series, early professional baseball, international baseball history

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