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Loading the Pack-Horses—Sunrise

Date1893

Illustration Citation"From the Black Sea to the Persian Gulf by Caravan. II. From Tabreez to Ispahan," by Edwin Lord Weeks, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1893

MediumWood engraving

Dimensionscomposition: 4 7/8 × 7 7/8 in. (12.4 × 20 cm)
sheet: 8 7/8 × 11 3/16 in. (22.5 × 28.4 cm)

Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005 Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969

Object number2005-13

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Label TextLike many of his fellow-members of the Society of American Wood Engravers, Albert Mumford Lindsay engraved other artists' paintings and illustrations for reproduction and then exhibited the prints as examples of the printmaking art. The catalogue of such an exhibition in Boston in 1890 lists Lindsay's engravings of works by seven artists, including the Western specialist Frederic Remington.

The author and illustrator of the article, American artist Edwin Lord Weeks studied in Paris and emerged as a major painter of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to numerous countries, recording scenes both on canvas and in narrative.