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Two Studies of Women Standing behind Railing, Looking at the Launching of Dories, Cullercoats, England
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In upper half of composition, figures of women stand at a railing and watch the fishermen and the sea; at left is a house with a hipped roof and porch; beyond the railing, four dories are drawn up on beach. Framing lines. In lower half: details of three women [in a grouping similar to the one on the verso], and one dory with color notations. Verso: drawn in opposite direction: three women and a child stand behind a railing; in background are dories, heads of fishermen, sea.
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s own descriptionCredit lineTwo Studies of Women Standing behind Railing, Looking at the Launching of Dories, Cullercoats, England. 1881. Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.. CC0.