A Startling Fact
A Startling Fact
- Description (Brief)
- Colored comic print; outdoor scene of man falling into creek because the tree limb from which he was fishing has broken. Man wears street clothes: striped vest, jacket and trousers. A creel is slung over his shoulder. A high silk hat, fishing pole with fish and can of bait are falling into water. Another fisherman looks on from the background. Classical revival building also in the background.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- date made
- ca 1859
- distributors
- Phelps & Watson
- distributor
- Whiting, George
- maker
- E.B. and E.C. Kellogg
- place made
- United States: Connecticut, Hartford
- Physical Description
- hand-colored (image production method/technique)
- ink (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 12 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in; 31.75 cm x 21.59 cm
- overall: 13 1/2 in x 9 in; 34.29 cm x 22.86 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2292
- catalog number
- 60.2292
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Architecture, Domestic Buildings
- Comic prints
- Fishing
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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