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Skating in Central Park...   "Backgammon", by Winslow Homer...
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Skating in Central Park... "Backgammon", by Winslow Homer...

Item # 174116 ·

HARPER'S WEEKLY February 24, 1877. Full front page Thomas Nast political cartoon: "A Jewel Among Swine." Inside is a full page print: "St. Valentine's Day in Merrie Old England"; full page print: "Skating in Central Park." 
The doublepage centerfold has several prints of: "The Water Color Exhibition, at the National Academy of Design, New York - Sketches of Some of the Pictures" (which includes the 2 1/4 by 1 5/8 inch "Backgammon", by Winslow Homer).
Full page Nast print: "They Do Each Other Honor"; half page print: "The Castle of Europe, Dardanelles"; half page print: "The Castle of Asia, Dardanelles." 
The supplement contains a two-thirds page print: "Heavy Rains at Constantinople - People Going to Hear the Reading of the Constitution." Two-thirds a doublepage print: "Horse Racing in Dalmatia"; two-thirds page print: "Wild Bull Shooting in the Galapagos Islands."

Categories: 1870-1879, Post-Civil War
Price
$65
Second rate
$34

A more affordable copy with minor flaws. What is a second rate?

100% Authentic: Original printing, never a reproduction.