The cock of the walk – Historic Reproduction
![The cock of the walk, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/bb/bb5855603bc2-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.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures The cock of the walk in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The cock of the walk
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The cock of the walk" takes its title from an old expression for the dominant rooster in a barnyard, and by extension a person who lords it over everyone else. Currier & Ives issued this lithograph in New York in 1879, during the firm's peak years of producing inexpensive, widely sold prints on everyday American themes. The firm's output of that period, including humorous and rural subjects like this one, reached a broad middle-class audience. The print is catalogued as number 1302 in the firm's catalog raisonné, which is the standard reference for identifying and dating its work.
| 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. 1302. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,221 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-130579 |
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