Author: GROSSMAN, JULIAN
Title: Echo of a Distant Drum, Winslow Homer and the CIVIL War
Description: New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1974, 1st UK edition, 1st printing. (ISBN: 0810902257,). 27,5 x 30 m. Hardcover cloth with dustjacket.Oblong. 204 pages. 202 illustrations including 39 full coulor plates. Notes, bibliography. Dustjacket slightly disoloured. This book "is, in effect, a pictorial history of the war as Homer saw it, and includes virtually his entire artistic production form 1861 to 1865 in all mediums -- oils, drawings, watercolors, wood engravings, and lithographs, superbly reproduced and accompanied by battle maps, contemporary photographs, quotations from Walt Whitman and other Civil War observers, and the author's own illuminating commentaries.".

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