Wood engraving page from Harper's Weekly with a paddle steamer at top, printed text columns, and a small beach scene with a man and woman in the lower right.

On the Beach, Harper's Weekly page with steamboat, 1860

A wood-engraved Harper's Weekly page shows a paddle steamer with tall smokestacks and a name banner across its wheelhouse at top, above two columns of small printed text. In the lower right, a small vignette captioned "On the Beach" shows a man in a top hat and a woman in a long dress on a beach.

Artist: Winslow Homer
Date: 1860
Medium: wood engraving on paper
Source: Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Size: 2027 × 3000 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1860).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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