Perils of the Sea

1888

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: image: 13 11/16 x 20 1/4 in. (34.8 x 51.4 cm) plate: 16 7/16 x 21 3/4 in. (41.7 x 55.3 cm) sheet: 21 9/16 x 27 11/16 in. (54.7 x 70.3 cm)
Collection no.: 24.39.5
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Winslow Homer. Perils of the Sea. Winslow Homer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Perils of the Sea — Winslow Homer. 1888.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: image: 13 11/16 x 20 1/4 in. (34.8 x 51.4 cm) plate: 16 7/16 x 21 3/4 in. (41.7 x 55.3 cm) sheet: 21 9/16 x 27 11/16 in. (54.7 x 70.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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