The tall man was lying at his feet, huddled hideously on the floor
Date1906
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"The Second-Class Passenger," by Perceval Gibbon, in McClure's Magazine, October 1906
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions23 3/4 × 15 3/4 in. (60.3 × 40 cm)
frame: 32 1/8 × 24 in. (81.6 × 61 cm)
frame: 32 1/8 × 24 in. (81.6 × 61 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1912
Object number1912-65
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextHoward Pyle depicts a tourist in Mozambique who gets lost in a city and wanders into a den of criminals. In this scene he recoils as he realizes that he has unwittingly killed one of them. Unrepentant, he still manages to catch his departing ship the same evening.
