Barbarously murdered the first, and grievously wounded the latter

Barbarously murdered the first, and grievously wounded the latter
Barbarously murdered the first, and grievously wounded the latter

Barbarously murdered the first, and grievously wounded the latter

Date1895
Printer/Printmaker (American wood engraver, 1858–1940)
Artist (American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration CitationNew York Colonial Privateers, by Thomas A. Janvier, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February 1895
MediumWood engraving
Dimensionscomposition: 7 5/16 × 4 13/16 in. (18.6 × 12.2 cm)
sheet: 12 1/8 × 9 1/2 in. (30.8 × 24.1 cm)
Credit LineTransfer from the Helen Farr Sloan Library, 2005 Gift of Mrs. John Van Brunt, Jr., 1969
Object number2005-54
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
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 illustrations depict sceens of violence around the port of New York in the 18th century. Privateering involved privately owned merchant ships that engaged in armed warfare on the seas with the approval of their governments..
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