Wild duck shooting: on the wing – 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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Wild duck shooting: on the wing
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Wild duck shooting, as this lithograph is titled, shows the sport in motion rather than a still scene of game laid out on a table, with hunters and birds caught in the moment of flight. Published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1870, it belongs to a firm that produced hand-colored lithographs for a mass market, bringing rural and sporting subjects into parlors and taverns across the country. Duck hunting was a popular pastime in the decades after the Civil War, and prints like this one reflected a growing public interest in outdoor recreation and in the wildlife that drew hunters to marshes and waterways.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1870. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7213 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,124 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-137656 |
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