On the farther side of the stream three young women were kneeling
Date1894
Printer/Printmaker
Albert Mumford Lindsay
(American wood engraver, 1858–1940)
Illustration Citation"The Simpletons," by Thomas Hardy, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1894. This is the first installment of the story that would be retitled "Hearts Insurgent." The illustration appears as a frontispiece on page 2 of the magazine, separate from the story.
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 4 13/16 × 7 7/16 in. (12.2 × 18.9 cm)
sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 in. (24.1 × 30.5 cm)
sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 in. (24.1 × 30.5 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005
Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969
Object number2005-19
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 Remington.From William Hatherell's original work, Lindsay created this print - the frontispiece for the issue - depicting the meeting of Arabella Donn and Jude Fawley in Thomas Hardy's The Simpletons, which ran from December 1894 to November 1895. The story was later re-titled Hearts Insurgent. In 1895, it was published as a book in London under its present title of Jude the Obscure.
