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[Rip and dog fishing] – Vintage Print

[Rip and dog fishing] — historic print
[Rip and dog fishing]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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A window into the past: [Rip and dog fishing], preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Rip and his dog at the water's edge make up this scene from Frank T. Merrill's illustrations for Washington Irving's *Rip Van Winkle*, published in Boston in 1888 and found on page 14. Irving first printed the tale in 1819. It follows a farmer from the Catskill Mountains who sleeps for twenty years and wakes to a village changed by the Revolution. Merrill, an American illustrator, drew the pictures for an edition of a story that was widely read and often reissued, and this early scene shows the easygoing idler whose laziness sets up the tale's supernatural turn.

Medium1 print.
Notes1888
SubjectsIllus. in: Irving's Rip Van Winkle, illus. by Frank T. Merrill, Boston, 1888, p. 14. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children; N.Y.--Catskill Mts.; Kites; Fict. Char.; Fishing (Sport); PI--Works; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,178 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-126490

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