# Boy with Anchor, in Drawings of the 19th century

Winslow Homer painted this in 1873, aged 37. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> In this work from a series of watercolors produced in Gloucester, MA, in the summer of 1873 Winslow Homer evokes the fraught nature of the local fishing industry by focusing not on the perilous work of adults, but rather the children they leave behind.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1873
- Medium: Watercolor and graphite on paper
- Dimensions: Sheet: 19.4 x 34.9 cm (7 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
- Type: Drawing
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.128
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Winslow Homer](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/winslow-homer), American, 1836–1910

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.

16 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by Winslow Homer](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/winslow-homer?hang=750) (16 works)
- [More American Gilded Age](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/american-gilded-age?hang=750) (67 works)
- [19th-century United States](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/19-united-states?hang=750) (198 works)

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