Fox chase: The death – Historic 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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Fox chase: The death 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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Currier's lithograph "Fox Chase: The Death" shows the closing moment of a hunt, the instant when the hounds bring down the fox and the riders gather around the kill. Nathaniel Currier issued it in New York around 1846, during the years when his firm was turning out cheap hand-colored lithographs for a broad middle-class market. Fox hunting was then a popular sport in parts of the Northeast and the South, and prints like this one gave people who never rode to hounds a lively look at the field, the dogs, and the traditional ending of the chase.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2283 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,123 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174469 |
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