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Shooting on the Beach

Currier & Ives
Date made: ca. 1873

Materials: Paper
Measurements: Overall: 246 x 352 mm; Image: 214 x 316 mm

Hand-colored Currier & Ives lithograph depicting a man with a rifle in the foreground, kneeling behind an outcropping of rocks and taking aim at shorebirds in the distance near the surf. Beside him, a number of birds already shot, lie in the sand. (GA*21357)

Bequest of Adele S. Colgate
Photography by Hugh Talman


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