By Winslow Homer
Located in New York, NY
Winslow Homer created the etching entitled “THE LIFE LINE” in 1884. This is an unsigned impression published in 1887 by “C. Klackner, 17 East 17th St., New York.” There is an etched Remarque in the lower right of an anchor between two dials. Signed in the plate, lower left “Homer 1884.” The image size (platemark) is 12.88 x 17.75 inches (32.7 x 45 cm). It is unknown why the majority of “The Life Line” edition is unsigned. This piece is framed in a 1 3/8 molding finished in gold leaf, silk-wrapped rag stock mat, rag stock backing, and finished with TruVue Museum Glass.
“During the 1870s, after many disastrous shipwrecks, the public demand for higher safety standards on immigrant steamers was heard. A bolstering of the American Lifesaving Service, with brigade houses along the shore from Maine to Florida, and new lifesaving devices were introduced. One of these was the breeches buoy - a seat that carried people from the ship to shore rapidly. A trained brigade using a small cannon...
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1880s American Impressionist Winslow Homer Art