1867 Two Winslow Homer Parisian Ball Prints, Halloween Pumpkin — Nov 23 For Sale

🗞️ HARPERS WEEKLY · November 23, 1867
Complete Issue · New collectors issue of exceptional significance — two full-page Winslow Homer prints of Parisian ballrooms in a single issue, both held in major museum collections worldwide; a rare Halloween jack-o-lantern front page; and additional illustrations of rowing, pedestrianism, and American university architecture. One of the finest Winslow Homer issues in the Harpers Weekly WINSLOW HOMER — TWO FULL PAGE — \"A PARISIAN BALL — DANCING AT THE MABILLE, PARIS\" — BY WINSLOW HOMER
A full-page wood engraving by Winslow Homer depicting the famous Bal Mabille — the legendary open-air dance pavilion in Paris that was the social center of Second Empire Parisian nightlife, renowned for its gaslit trees, dazzling illuminations, and fashionable dancers. Homer had recently returned from Paris, where he had exhibited his paintings and immersed himself in Parisian culture, and these two ballroom prints represent his direct response to that experience. This specific work is held in the collections of: the Smithsonian American Art Museum (The Ray Austrian Collection), the Art Institute of Chicago (Gift of Arthur and Hilda Wenig, 2001.813), the Delaware Art Museum (Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1988-46), the Portland Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division. An original Harpers Weekly print — not a reproduction — of a work by one of the greatest American painters of the 19th century.🎭 FULL PAGE — \"A PARISIAN BALL — DANCING AT THE CASINO\" — BY WINSLOW HOMER
A second full-page wood engraving by Winslow Homer — a companion piece to the Mabille print — depicting dancing at a Parisian casino ballroom. This work is held in the collections of the Portland Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and Wikimedia Commons. Two Winslow Homer prints in one issue is extraordinarily rare — together they make this one of the most collectible Homer issues in the entire Harpers Weekly run. An original print of a museum-held FRONT PAGE — \"THE PUMPKIN EFFIGY\" — HALLOWEEN JACK-O-LANTERN
A front-page illustration of a carved pumpkin jack-o-lantern — a rare and sought-after piece of Halloween ephemera in the Harpers Weekly run. Victorian Halloween-related illustrations are extraordinarily scarce in American illustrated newspapers of the 1860s, making this front-page jack-o-lantern a genuinely unusual find. The jack-o-lantern tradition, brought to America by Irish immigrants, was still new and regional in 1867 — one of the earliest appearances of the carved pumpkin in American illustrated INSIDE THE HALF PAGE — \"SCULLING RACE ON THE MONONGAHELA RIVER\"
A half-page illustration of a sculling race on the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh — a vivid piece of American rowing and sporting history, capturing the river racing culture of one of Americas great industrial waterways.🚶 SMALL ILLUSTRATION — \"WESTON, THE PEDESTRIAN, ON THE ROAD\"
A small illustration of Edward Payson Weston, the celebrated pedestrian, continuing his extraordinary transcontinental walk — a companion to the previous weeks coverage of his remarkable feat.🏫 ILLUSTRATION — \"DREW THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, MADISON, NEW JERSEY\"
An illustration of Drew Theological Seminary — the Methodist institution established in Madison, New Jersey in 1867, the very year of this issue. A significant piece of American Methodist educational history from the institutions founding year.🎓 ILLUSTRATION — \"ANTIOCH COLLEGE, YELLOW SPRINGS, OHIO\"
An illustration of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio — the pioneering coeducational institution that Horace Mann had led as its first president, one of the first American colleges to admit both men and women regardless of race. A significant piece of American educational and progressive photograph every page of every issue so you can inspect the condition closely before purchasing. Please review all images carefully and dont hesitate to ask any questions — Im happy to provide additional detail or close-up shots of any page, illustration, or area of concern before you ········ Harpers Weekly
Date ··············· November 23, 1867
City ··············· New York
Item Number ········ 173148
Pages ·············· Complete Issue · No supplement
Format ············· Illustrated folio SHIPPING & Housed in an acid-free archival folder with Mylar overlay to protect the 159-year-old newsprint
• Flat-shipped with heavy-duty reinforcement
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