Pointers – 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 Pointers, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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*Pointers* takes its subject from the hunting dog itself, a breed trained to freeze in a rigid stance when it catches the scent of game birds, and the print presents that pose as the moment of the hunt. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York around 1846, when his firm was producing large numbers of sporting and rural scenes for a middle-class market that wanted affordable pictures. The artist is identified only by the initial "P." on the image, so the maker remains unknown. The hand coloring, applied over the printed outline, was typical of the firm's output in the 1840s.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1846. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Artist: P. (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5223 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,066 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175020 |
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