Life in Camp, Part 1: Building Castles

1864

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In 1864 Homer designed two series of lithographed collectors’ cards titled Life in Camp for the Boston publisher Louis Prang & Co. Unlike his serious war-time images for Harper’s Weekly, the artist felt free to inject humor into these miniature comments on army life which include images of soldiers resting, eating and reacting to army life. Here, a Union soldier smokes and dreams of home near tents. By 1864 the war was entering its final months and formerly sacrosanct subjects could be approached more lightly.

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Title: Life in Camp, Part 1: Building Castles
Artist: After Winslow Homer (American, Boston, Massachusetts 1836–1910 Prouts Neck, Maine)
Publisher: Louis Prang & Co. (Boston, Massachusetts)
Date: 1864
Medium: Color lithograph
Dimensions: Sheet: 4 1/8 x 2 3/8 in. (10.4 x 6.1 cm)
Classifications: Prints, Ephemera
Credit Line: The Jefferson Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson Burdick, 1947
Object Number: 47.91.25(178)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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