Frontispiece for Sun-Dials and How Made

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Frontispiece for Sun-Dials and How Made
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Frontispiece for Sun-Dials and How Made

Date1895
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
Illustration CitationJohn S. Bailey, Sun-Dials and How Made, Buckingham, PA, 1897.
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 6 3/4 × 4 13/16 in. (17.1 × 12.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
Object number2014-224
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextJohn S. Bailey was a Pennsylvania clockmaker and repairman, as well as a "dialer"—a sundial enthusiast and builder. Sloan made several illustrations for his book, Sun-Dials and How Made.