Sphinx-Moths
Date1888
Printer/Printmaker
Albert Mumford Lindsay
(American wood engraver, 1858–1940)
Artist
W. Hamilton Gibson
(American illustrator and author, 1850–1896)
Illustration Citation"A Midnight Ramble," by William Hamilton Gibson, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1888.
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 6 3/4 × 4 7/8 in. (17.1 × 12.4 cm)
sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 7/8 in. (28.9 × 22.5 cm)
sheet: 11 3/8 × 8 7/8 in. (28.9 × 22.5 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005
Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969
Object number2005-38
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.Illustrator William Hamilton Gibson was a naturalist as well as an artist.
