Lin McLean

1898

Not on view

Remington provided eight illustrations for Owen Wister's first novel, Lin McLean, published by Harper & Brothers in 1898. This photogravure frontispiece depicts McLean, a young cow-puncher, with arms akimbo, wearing a hat, scarf, fringed chaps, and revolver. Remington first met Wister in 1893, a writer of western fiction who mythologized the rugged, individualist American cowboy as Remington did in his art, and is best remembered for The Virginian (1902), dedicated to President Theodore Roosevelt.

Artwork Details

Overview

Title: Lin McLean
Author: Owen Wister (American, Germantown, Pennsylvania 1860–1938 Kingston, Rhode Island)
Illustrator: Frederic Remington (American, Canton, New York 1861–1909 Ridgefield, Connecticut)
Publisher: Harper & Brothers (American, New York)
Date: 1898
Medium: Illustrations: photogravure
Dimensions: 7 9/16 × 5 1/2 × 1 3/8 in. (19.2 × 14 × 3.5 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1966
Object Number: 66.734
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

More Artwork

A slider containing 5 items.
Press the down key to skip to the last item.

The Tent on the Beach, Margaret Neilson Armstrong American, illustrations: photogravure reproductions of paintings — The Tent on the Beach
Multiple artists/makers
1899

World's Columbian Exposition: Art and Architecture: The Architecture, William Walton American, Illustrations: photogravure, facsimile typogravure — World's Columbian Exposition: Art and Architecture: The Architecture
William Walton
George Barrie
1893

Portrait of Whistler, Ernest Haskell American, Photogravure — Portrait of Whistler
Ernest Haskell
1898

How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts and Habits of Our Common Wild Flowers, Margaret Neilson Armstrong American, Illustrations: collotype — How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts and Habits of Our Common Wild Flowers
Multiple artists/makers
1895

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] American, Illustrations: process prints — The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Multiple artists/makers
1885

Research Resources

The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.

To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.

Feedback

We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please complete and submit this form. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.