Mink Trapping: "Prime"

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Publisher Currier & Ives (American, 1857 - 1907)

Publisher Nathanial Currier (American, 1813 - 1888)

Publisher James Merritt Ives (American, 1824 - 1895)

DatePubl. 1862

MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper

DimensionsComposition: 19 in. × 27 3/4 in. (48.3 × 70.5 cm) Sheet: 24 3/4 in. × 32 in. (62.9 × 81.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891

Object number1959.56

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2005
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. Hamilton Collects, "A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection," September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat., illus., 21).

Provenance 1959: Hamilton College by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams

Published References A CENTURY OF CURIOSITIES, THE STORY OF THE HAMILTON COLLEGE COLLECTION (exh. cat., Clinton, NY, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, September 29-December 30, 2005, Unnumbered cat.)

Signature Signed in typeset atlower right: LITH. CURRIER & IVES, N.Y.; in typeset at lower left: PAINTED BY A. TAIT.

Inscribed Signed in typeset at lower right: LITH. CURRIER & IVES, N.Y.; entitled in typeset at lower center: MINK TRAPPING. / "Prime."; in typeset below title: NEW YORK, PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES, 152 NASSAU STREET.; in typeset at lower center: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1862, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York; in pencil at lower left corner: 34; in pencil on verso at lower left corner: MWPI; in pencil on verso at lower left corner: HC.85; in pencil on verso at center [upside down]: $4.00; in pencil on verso at upper right corner: 10 [encircled]