A Baseball Match, photogravure after Henry Sandham

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This print shows an everyday game of baseball rather than a famous stadium or player, the kind of scene played on open fields and village greens in the late 1800s. It reproduces a painting by Henry Sandham, a Canadian-born painter and illustrator who also worked for American magazines and was known for genre scenes of ordinary life. Photogravure, the process used here, carried the artist's tonal range onto paper with a soft, detailed finish that suited the period's taste for fine art reproduction. Prints like this made painted scenes of sport and rural life widely available, and they still show how the game was played and watched before modern ballparks.

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