A Slave Market
Date1893
Printer/Printmaker
Albert Mumford Lindsay
(American wood engraver, 1858–1940)
Artist
Frederic Remington
(American painter, illustrator, and sculptor, 1861–1909)
Illustration Citation"Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa," by Henry M. Stanley, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, March 1893
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 4 13/16 × 7 11/16 in. (12.2 × 19.5 cm)
sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 1/8 in. (22.7 × 28.3 cm)
sheet: 8 15/16 × 11 1/8 in. (22.7 × 28.3 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005
Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969
Object number2005-15
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
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 RemingtonHere Remington illustrated an expose of slavery and the slave trade in Africa in the 1890s.
