"She Turned her Face to the Window" (The Galaxy, An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, Vol. V) 1868

Winslow Homer made this wood engraving, titled "She Turned Her Face to the Window," for *The Galaxy* magazine. This kind of image was made with a painstaking, highly skilled process. First, the artist would create a drawing on the surface of a block of wood. Then, a specialist engraver would use various tools to carve away the negative space, leaving only the lines of the image in relief. This block would then be inked and pressed onto paper, creating multiple identical prints. The hatching marks, so evident here, are a vestige of that labor. The engraver’s task was to translate the tonal variation of Homer's original drawing into a language of line. The final image—distributed widely in a popular magazine—is the product of a collaborative, highly industrialized process. It is a testament to the skill of both artist and engraver.