Lot 1700
  • 1700

CURRIER & IVES (PUBLISHER)."WILD DUCK SHOOTING — GOOD DAY'S SPORT": HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPH

Estimate
2,000 - 4,000 USD
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Description

  • "Wild Duck Shooting — Good Day's Sport": Hand-colored lithograph
Hand-colored lithograph, by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, New York: N. Currier, 1854. Gold liner, French mat, and bird's-eye maple frame. sheet size (sight): 381 x 533 mm  15 x 21 in

Provenance

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Americana Collection

Condition

In generally fine condition. Not examined out of frame.
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Catalogue Note

Classic Currier & Ives hunting print by Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait

This large folio hunting print by Arthur Tait is on the Currier & Ives New Best Fifty list, #46. It is a quintessential duck hunting scene. The man standing in the boat is thought to be Nathaniel Currier, who enjoyed hunting, and the seated man, Arthur Tait. It is in any event a marvellous scene depicting the happiness of sportsmen with their retrievers and shotguns pulled up on the shore of a lake at the end of a day of sport.