The life of a sportsman: coming into camp – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The life of a sportsman: coming into camp comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Titled "The Life of a Sportsman: Coming into Camp," this lithograph shows the moment a hunting party arrives at its woodland base, a scene the title sets apart from the series' more general hunting and fishing views. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that printed inexpensive color lithographs for a broad middle-class market, issued many such sporting scenes in the decades after the Civil War. As city dwellers increasingly traveled to the Adirondacks and other northern wilderness areas for recreation, images like this one offered armchair access to the outdoor camp life they admired.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3793 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,186 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117249 |
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