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Framed print called "American Feathered Game", a picture of birds strung up by their feet against a gray oval ground and a white background. Under glass in a plain gilt painted frame. 1) Has birds with predominately browns and greys. 2) Has birds with predominately grey, green and blue.
prints (visual works)
glass (material)
paper (fiber product)
photographs
wood (plant material)
figure- and animal-derived motifs
Aves (class)
hunting
Unidentified Paper
photographic print
Glass
Hunting
Bird
PICTURE
1) American Feathered Game/Woodcock and Snipe. 2) American Feathered Game/Wood-cluck and Golded Eye. Additional copy around the oval reads: Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1854 by N. Currier, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. Signed by A.F. Tait.
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Currier, Nathaniel (Printer)
Tait, Arthur Fitzwilliam, 1819-1905 (Painter)
Kniersch, O. (Engraver)
New York, NY, USA; USA
21.75 x 18.25 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.1653.1-2
New York state (United States)
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