Kara Walker
Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry

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Artist Kara Walker(American, born 1969)American, born 1969

Publisher Sikkema Jenkins & Co.(New York)New York

CultureAmerican

Titles

Foote's Gun-Boats Ascending to Attack Fort Henry
from the series Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated)

Date2005

MediumLithograph and screenprint

DimensionsSheet: 39 × 53 in. (99.1 × 134.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Michael A. Caddell and Cynthia Chapman, Bettie Cartwright and Colin Kennedy, the Marjorie G. and Evan C. Horning Print Fund, Melissa and Albert Joseph Grobmyer IV, Puffer-Sweiven, L.P., and the Director's Accessions Endowment

Object number2006.646.3

Non exposé

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Prints and Drawings

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PRINTS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"After the Deluge," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Summer, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in pencil, recto lower right: " 11/35 K W 2005 "

Initialed in pencil, recto lower right: edition " K W " dated

Printed lower center below the image: "FOOTE'S GUN-BOATS ASCENDING TO ATTACK FORT HENRY."

Yellow circular stamp(printer's?) on verso lower right - image or lettering is illegible.

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