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Drummer Boy


Drawing: Black and white chalk on blue paper, 1864
17 x 10 5/8 ins. (432 x 270 mm)
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Gift of Charles Savage Homer, Jr.
1912-12-205

 

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