Mc Andrew's Hymn
Date1894
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"McAndrew's Hymn,or The Marine Steam Engineer's Hymn," by Rudyard Kipling, in Scribner's Magazine, December 1894
MediumBlack and white oil on illustration board
Dimensions15 3/8 x 10 5/8 in. (39.1 x 27 cm)
frame: 18 × 14 in. (45.7 × 35.6 cm)
frame: 18 × 14 in. (45.7 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineSamuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Object number1935-21
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextHoward Pyle captures the rugged character and pensive mood of a ship's chief engineer on watch as he approaches port. In his musings, he recognizes the hand of God in the places he has visited and the people he has met, and especially in the complex mechanisms of his ship. Lines such as "from coupler-flange to spindle-guide" prompted a popular science writer to note that Kipling's poem "has proclaimed the Romance of Machinery."
