Sliding Home: Harper's Weekly, 1904

Title: Sliding Home Author: Harper's Weekly Date: 1904 Condition: Excellent Inches: 13 x 8 7/8 [Image] Centimeters: 33.02 x 22.54 [Image] Product ID: 308404 A thrilling moment at home plate unfolds in this lively baseball scene, as a runner dives headlong while the catcher braces for the play, cheered on by an excited, colorful crowd under a canopy of trees—expertly illustrated by A.B. Frost. Background on Creator Arthur Burdett Frost (1851–1928) was a prolific American illustrator, painter, printmaker, and cartoonist, whose work appeared in leading magazines such as Harper's Weekly, Scribner's, Life, and Century Magazine. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Frost is recognized as one of the foremost artists of the "Golden Age of American Illustration," celebrated especially for his dynamic hunting, shooting, and rural scene prints. Frost began his artistic journey as a teenager, apprenticed to an engraving and lithography shop, where he was initially told he lacked talent