Soldier Giving Water to a Wounded Companion
Cooper Hewitt

Soldier Giving Water to a Wounded Companion

Winslow Homer, American, 1836–1910 · 1864

Charcoal, white chalk, brush and white gouache on greenish-grey wove paper, mounted on cardboard
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Recto: Horizontal view of a soldier kneeling beside a wounded companion, holding his head, and giving him a drink from a canteen, as a third soldier stands and watches at left foreground. A faintly drawn group appears in right background. Verso: A drill ground.

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