On the Ramparts
Date1888
Artist
Edwin Howland Blashfield
(American painter, 1848–1936)
Illustration Citation"Castle Life in the Middle Ages," by E. H. and E. W. Blashfield, in Scribner's Magazine, January 1889
MediumBlack-and-white oil painting on canvas
Dimensions19 1/2 × 11 1/2 in. (49.5 × 29.2 cm)
frame: 21 × 13 in. (53.3 × 33 cm)
frame: 21 × 13 in. (53.3 × 33 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1981
Object number1981-26
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextBlashfield was known primarily as a painter and muralist. His illustration for this evocation of mediaeval life--written with his wife Evangeline--was praised by one critic as "a vivid description of castles in the days of the crusaders."