Uncle Sam
Date1879
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"The Old National Pike," by W.H. Rideing, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, November 1879
MediumGraphite, charcoal, and gouache on paper
Dimensionssheet: 11 15/16 × 9 in. (30.3 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1919
Object number1919-2
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextHoward Pyle depicts Samuel Nimmy, a retired driver on the Old National Pike, or the Cumberland Turnpike, begun in 1811, which eventually ran from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois (1837):...although he is eighty-six years old...he lives in a comfortable cottage at Hagerstown (Maryland)...the centre table is loaded with books, principally on Negro emancipation and the events of the Civil War.
