PIGEON SHOOTING./ "Playing the decoy."_
Prints and Maps
Currier & Ives (Lithographer and publisher)
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (Painter)
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1862
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)
Lithography, Hand colored, Painted
1993.0120
Object Number1993.0120 |
Print (Color lithograph)
PIGEON SHOOTING./ "Playing the decoy."_
Prints and Maps
Gift of C. Porter Schutt
Currier & Ives (Lithographer and publisher)
1857-1907
References: Last, The Color Explosion, pp. 66-7; Peters, America on Stone.
Listed in New York City directories:
152 Nassau Street and 2 Spruce Street, 1857-65
152 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1866-72
125 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1872-74
123 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1874-77
115 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1877-94
108 Fulton Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1894-96
33 Spruce Street, 1896-1907
Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (Painter)
08/05/1819-04/28/1905
References: Appleton's Cyclopedia.
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1862
1. Signature; Bottom right corner in image; A. F Tait, NY.
2. Inscription; Lower left beneath image; PAINTED BY A. F. TAIT.
3. Inscription; Center beneath image; ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS, IN THE YEAR 1862, BY CURRIER & IVES, IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE OF THE DISTRICT COURT, OF THE UNITED STATES, FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK.
4. Inscription; Lower right beneath image; LITH. CURRIER & IVES, N.Y.
5. Inscription; Bottom center below title; NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES, 152 NASSAU S.\T
Sporting pictures
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)
Lithography, Hand colored, Painted
23.9 (H) , 31.9 (W) , 19 (Image H) , 27.5 (Image W)
60.8 (H) , 81 (W) , 19 (Image H) , 27.5 (Image W)
H at left. W at bottom. Measurements of frame: H (at left): 28.1 in. (71.4 cm); W (at bottom): 36.4 in. (92.5 cm): D (at bottom left corner): 1.0 in. (2.5 cm).
Currier & Ives
1862
152 Nassau Street, New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
none
Colored stones and hand colored with watercolors
Text available soon.
[Book] Gale Research Company & Reilly, Bernard F. 1984 Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A Comprehensive catalogue of the lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merrit Ives and Charles Currier, including ephemera associated with the firm, 1834-1907. 2.
• Print listed as no. 5181, p. 534.
[Book] Peters, Harry Twyford. 1929 Currier and Ives: Printmakers to the American People. 2 vols.
• Print listed as no. 3330, p. 335.