Shooting Turkeys for Thanksgiving - Day
Shooting Turkeys for Thanksgiving - Day
- Description (Brief)
- Colored print; outdoor scene of a group of men and children with rifles standing together in front of a building, preparing to shoot turkeys in the distant snow-covered field. Another group of similar men engage in the same activity in the background.
- John Childs, was an engraver, lithographer, artist, and print colorist active in New York between the years 1836 to 1844, and in Philadelphia from 1848 through the 1860's. For a brief period while in New York, he published a quantity of political cartoons.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- date made
- after 1862
- maker
- Childs, John
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 10 1/2 in x 14 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 36.195 cm
- ID Number
- DL.60.2416
- catalog number
- 60.2416
- accession number
- 228146
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- subject
- Horses
- Architecture
- Children
- Birds
- Thanksgiving
- Holidays and Celebrations, general
- Hunting
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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