A charming piece of American illustration history, this antique halftone print depicts fashionable Victorian passengers enjoying a game of shuffleboard on a ship’s promenade deck. Signed in the plate by W.T. Smedley (William Thomas Smedley, 1858–1920) and dated to the 1890s, Smedley was one of the leading illustrators of his era, contributing regularly to Harper’s Weekly and other major publications of the Gilded Age.