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Nathaniel Currier
(American, 1813 – 1888)
Datebefore 1856
MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition: 12 1/2 × 21 3/4 in. (31.8 × 55.2 cm)
Sheet: 18 in. × 23 3/4 in. (45.7 × 60.3 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891, 1959
Object number1959.32
Not on view
DescriptionTerrier teaching her pups how to catch rats. Part of this print forms the composition of "Who's Afraid of You," companion to "Not caught Yet"
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Published References
Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 1973
Signature
Signed in typeset at lower left: LITH. & PUB. BY N. CURRIER
Inscribed
Entitled in typeset at lower center: THE FIRST LESSON.; inscribed in typeset at lower left: LITH. & PUB. BY N. CURRIER,; at lower right: 152 NASSAU ST. COR. OF SPRUCE N.Y.; in pencil at lower left corner: 26; in pencil on verso: HC 174.1
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.127
Nathaniel Currier
Date: 1854
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.21
Nathaniel Currier
Date: before 1856
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.30
Nathaniel Currier
Date: before 1856
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.45
Nathaniel Currier
Date: before 1856
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.47
Nathaniel Currier
Date: 1844-1850
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1949.10
Nathaniel Currier
Date: published 1846
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.50
Nathaniel Currier
Date: before 1857
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1949.7
Nathaniel Currier
Date: before 1856
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.61
Nathaniel Currier
Date: c. 1835-1856
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1949.15
Nathaniel Currier
Date: published 1844
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.66