On the Ramparts

On the Ramparts
On the Ramparts

On the Ramparts

Date1888
Artist (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)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1981
Object number1981-26
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
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."