Dragging the Duke Out of the Coach

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Dragging the Duke Out of the Coach
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Dragging the Duke Out of the Coach

Date1893
Illustration Citation"A Soldier of Fortune. A True Story," by Howard Pyle, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, December 1893
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 7 × 4 3/4 in. (17.8 × 12.1 cm)
sheet: 12 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (30.6 × 24 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005 Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969
Object number2005-50
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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.

Howard Pyle illustrated his own story about the life of Thomas Blood, the 17th century Anglo-Irish adventurer who tired to kill the Duke of Ormond, who represented the British monarch in Ireland. Here the plot to kidnap the Duke is underway.
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