Mosque of Mohammed Ali, Scutari
Date1891
Printer/Printmaker
Albert Mumford Lindsay
(American wood engraver, 1858–1940)
Artist
Francis Hopkinson Smith
(American painter, engineer, and author, 1838–1915)
Illustration Citation"Under the Minarets," by Francis Hopkinson Smith, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, September 1891
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 7 3/4 × 4 5/8 in. (19.7 × 11.7 cm)
sheet: 10 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (27.6 × 22.5 cm)
sheet: 10 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (27.6 × 22.5 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005
Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969
Object number2005-26
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.Francis Hopkinson Smith wrote and illustrated the fictional story Under the Minarets, about a European man long fascinated by the Arabian Nights legends, who visits Istanbul to sketch and paint the historic city.
