The Landing of Cadillac
Date1886
Printer/Printmaker
Albert Mumford Lindsay
(American wood engraver, 1858–1940)
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"The City of the Strait," by Edmund Kirke, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, August 1886
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 4 13/16 × 7 3/4 in. (12.2 × 19.7 cm)
sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 1/4 in. (24.1 × 31.1 cm)
sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 1/4 in. (24.1 × 31.1 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005
Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969
Object number2005-49
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.Howard Pyle's illustration for his narrative about the founding of Detroit (nicknamed city of the strait as detroit means strait in French) in 1701 by the French explorer Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac includes his arrival with a "little fleet of birchbark canoes."
