The haunts of the wild swan Carroll Island, - Chesapeake Bay. – Antique Wall Art
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The haunts of the wild swan Carroll Island, - Chesapeake Bay. comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The haunts of the wild swan Carroll Island, - Chesapeake Bay.
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The title places this lithograph on Carroll Island, a marshy stretch of the Chesapeake Bay region in Maryland, and it is one of the few prints in the gallery that shows a specific wetland habitat rather than a generic scene of birds. Published in New York by Currier & Ives around 1872, it belongs to the firm's popular run of colored prints that brought natural scenes and American landscapes to middle-class parlors. Wild swans wintered in large numbers on the bay's shallow waters, and in the late 1800s the birds were also hunted commercially, which gives the scene a quieter context than its decorative style suggests.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1872. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | C7806 U.S. Copyright Office. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2985 |
| Subjects | Swans--Maryland--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,132 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174670 |
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