The game cock / el gallo de pelea: in full feather – Antique 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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Step back in time with The game cock / el gallo de pelea: in full feather, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The game cock / el gallo de pelea: in full feather
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The title, The Game Cock / El gallo de pelea, is printed in both English and Spanish, and the bird is shown in full feather, the glossy, well-conditioned plumage that breeders valued in a fighting cock. Nathaniel Currier published this lithograph in New York around 1849, when inexpensive prints of sporting and rural subjects found a wide audience. The bilingual caption hints at the sport's reach beyond English-speaking buyers, since cockfighting was also popular across Spanish-speaking regions.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2401 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,044 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174505 |
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