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A Shell in the Trenches before Richmond [recto]
1862
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- charcoal and graphite with watercolor on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 17.8 × 25.3 cm (7 × 9 15/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.121.14.a
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Winslow Homer. A Shell in the Trenches before Richmond [recto]. 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,_A_Shell_in_the_Trenches_before_Richmond_(recto),_1862,_NGA_98224.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
A Shell in the Trenches before Richmond [recto] — Winslow Homer. 1862.
Medium: charcoal and graphite with watercolor on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 17.8 × 25.3 cm (7 × 9 15/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.121.14.a. 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.