Game of Bowls
Date1890
Printer/Printmaker
Albert Mumford Lindsay
(American wood engraver, 1858–1940)
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"Old New York Taverns," by John Austin Stevens, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, May 1890
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 4 13/16 × 7 in. (12.2 × 17.8 cm)
sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 5/16 in. (16.7 × 23.7 cm)
sheet: 6 9/16 × 9 5/16 in. (16.7 × 23.7 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005
Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969
Object number2005-52
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 depicts a friendly activity near a city tavern; the author notes that such leisure activities were falling out of favor as taverns increasingly became places for business and political transactions.
