Winter sports--pickerel 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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Winter sports--pickerel fishing
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Currier & Ives produced this lithograph around 1872 as part of their popular winter sporting scenes, which showed ice-covered ponds and rivers as places of leisure for all classes. The title points to pickerel fishing, a method of angling through a hole cut in the ice, where anglers sat patiently over small openings waiting for the pike-family fish to bite. Prints like this one helped define the American image of winter as a season of outdoor recreation rather than hardship. Its catalog entry in the 1983 Currier & Ives raisonné shows how carefully scholars have since documented the firm's large output of such scenes.
| 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. 7285 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,066 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-111228 |
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