Partridge shooting - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows two hunting dogs in a wooded area pointing at a partridge that has taken flight, diverting their attention from another partridge in the underbrush behind a rock.
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Inscribed in ink at bottom: Deposited June 8th 1870. No. 790.
Blind stamp at bottom: Deposited in U.S. District Clerk's Office Southern District New York.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5115
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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