Art, literature & history
Preparing for the March
1862
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 7.8 × 14.8 cm (3 1/16 × 5 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.121.11
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Winslow Homer. Preparing for the March. Winslow Homer; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Winslow_Homer,_Preparing_for_the_March,_1862,_NGA_98211.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Preparing for the March — Winslow Homer. 1862.
Medium: graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 7.8 × 14.8 cm (3 1/16 × 5 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.121.11. Gift of Dr. Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski, II.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.