American sporting scene - trout fishing – Vintage Print
(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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Step back in time with American sporting scene - trout fishing, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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American sporting scene - trout fishing
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Angling for trout was a favorite American sporting subject by 1870, and this lithograph from John Walsh & Co. of New York treats the stream as a place of leisure for the growing middle class. Lithography let New York publishers produce affordable images in quantity, and the firm's copyright entry under the federal act that year shows it was registered for sale. The pastime itself drew on a long tradition that went back to Izaak Walton's *The Compleat Angler* (1653), and by the 1870s it had become a fashionable outdoor pursuit in the Northeast.
| Created / published | New York : Published by John Walsh & Co., 37 Spring St., c1870 (N.Y. : Printed by J.F. Smart & Kahlmann, 14 Cortland St.) |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870. |
| Notes | Title from item. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1870 by John Walsh & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. |
| Subjects | Fishing--1870. Trout--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,183 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117261 |
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