Caught on the fly – Antique Print
![Caught on the fly, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9e/9e5eaf69a1ea-L.webp)
(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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Caught on the fly comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Caught on the fly
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Caught on the fly" names a specific angling method: a fish taken on an artificial lure dressed to imitate an insect, a skill that American anglers prized and wrote about extensively by the 1870s. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued inexpensive color lithographs for a wide public, produced many sporting scenes like this one, and the company's 1879 date places it in the decade when such prints were especially popular in middle-class parlors. The record places it in the firm's catalog of work, so it can be compared with the company's other fish and sport subjects.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0957. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,052 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117252 |
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