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Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony – "How Many Eggs?" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

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Wood engraving

Drawings and Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund 1928

After Winslow Homer (Artist) W. H. Lagarde (Engraver) Harper's Weekly (Publisher) Harper & Brothers (Publisher)

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June 13 1874, 1874

Title: Raid on a Sand-swallow Colony – "How Many Eggs?" (from "Harper's Weekly," Vol. XVIII)

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Wood engraving.

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