Art, literature & history
The Life Line
1884
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Etching, printed in dark green ink
- Dimensions
- plate: 12 13/16 x 17 3/4 in. (32.5 x 45.1 cm) sheet: 17 3/4 x 22 7/8 in. (45.1 x 58.1 cm)
- Collection no.
- 24.39.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Winslow Homer. The Life Line. 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
The Life Line — Winslow Homer. 1884.
Medium: Etching, printed in dark green ink. Dimensions: plate: 12 13/16 x 17 3/4 in. (32.5 x 45.1 cm) sheet: 17 3/4 x 22 7/8 in. (45.1 x 58.1 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.