A Hot Day (and) Beef Steak, Rare (and) A Straggler (and) A Quiet Nibble on the, ca. 1876

  • Edwin Forbes, American, 1839-1895

Etching printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 11 × 16 inches (27.9 × 40.6 cm) Sheet: 17 1/4 × 22 1/4 inches (43.8 × 56.5 cm)

Gift of Mrs. Harry W. Longstaff

F74.61.27

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in plate, lower right center: E Forbes Signed, in pencil, lower left: Mrs Edwin Forbes

Inscribed, in plate, lower left of upper left image: A hot day. Inscribed, lower right of upper right image: Beef steak, Rare Inscribed, lower left of lower left image: A Straggler. Inscribed, lower center of lower center image: A quiet nibble on the Cavalry skirmish line Inscribed, lower right of the lower right image: An Orderly. Inscribed, lower left: Copy-righted 1876, by E. Forbes.

Mrs. Harry W. Longstaff

1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Edwin Forbes, A Hot Day (and) Beef Steak, Rare (and) A Straggler (and) A Quiet Nibble on the, ca. 1876, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. Harry W. Longstaff, F74.61.27.