# Soldier with Sword and Pipe

**Winslow Homer** (American, 1836–1910)  
1862  
Graphite on paper  
13.1 x 9 cm (5 3/16 x 3 9/16 in.)

Courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 1912-12-159. [The museum's record](https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/view/objects/asitem/id/18864).

## About this work

Vertical view of a soldier with sword, standing with a pipe in his mouth, looking downward.

_Text from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum._

Winslow Homer drew this in 1862, aged 26. It is now at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.

### How it was made

- **Graphite.** Pencil. Graphite has been used for drawing since the 1500s; in 1795 Nicolas-Jacques Conté mixed it with clay, so its hardness could be graded.

### [Winslow Homer](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/winslow-homer)

American, 1836–1910; born in Boston, Massachusetts; died in Prouts Neck, Maine

Homer began as an illustrator, covering the Civil War for Harper’s Weekly, and first made his name in painting with scenes of soldiers and country life. A stay at the fishing village of Cullercoats on the English coast in 1881–82 turned him towards the sea, and from 1883 he lived at Prouts Neck, Maine, painting the Atlantic in all weathers. He was also a fluent watercolourist in the Adirondacks, Canada and the Caribbean, and The Gulf Stream draws on those southern journeys.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Drawing
- The artist was 26
- Real size: about 5 × 3½ in (13 × 9 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: white
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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