An Irish Wake, Illustration for Harper's Weekly (XVII, March 15, 1873, p. 204)

Object Details

Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Scene of an Irish wake. On the left, a woman leans over the coffin which has a candle on it. Figures to the right of the coffin wail in grief. On the right, figures sit at at table smoking and drinking.
Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
After
Michael Angelo Woolf, American, 1837–1899
Publisher
Harper & Bros., New York, New York, USA
Date
March 15, 1873
Medium
Wood engraving in black ink on paper
Type
figures
Object Name
Print
Type
Print
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