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I-I-I look an awful fool --- don't I?

Date1888

Illustration Citation"Virginia of Virginia," by Amélie Rives, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, January 1888

MediumWood engraving

Dimensionscomposition: 7 3/16 × 4 3/4 in. (18.3 × 12.1 cm)
sheet: 12 3/16 × 9 1/2 in. (31 × 24.1 cm)

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

Object number2005-46

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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.

Arthur Burdett Frost captured the characters and emotions of novelist Amelie Rives' short story about her native state. A rustic girl named Virginia encounters an aristocratic visiting Englishman. Having fallen in love with him, she tries to impress him in an elegant dress but finds that the clothes are unnatural to her and quickly retreats to take them off.