Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Tait, A. F. (active ca. 1862), artist
Group Creator Name:
- Currier & Ives (active 1857-1907), American, lithographer and publisher
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
Life on the prairie: the trapper's defence [sic] "Fire fight fire"
Date:
c1862
Materials:
print on paper: lithograph, hand colored
Dimensions:
55.7 x 77.3 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1527--FR
Subject:
- Animals
- Bison
- Fires
- Fur trade
- Horses
- Hunting
- Lithographs, color
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Content/Description:
Notes:
Trappers create backfire and hold frightened horses as wildfire surrounds them; buffalo stampede in distance; pelts and shotguns in foreground.
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Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Printed title (LC). Printed (LL): Painted by A.F. Tait; (LC, above title): Entered... 1862 by Currier & Ives...New York.(LC, below title): New York, Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau Street; (LR): Lith. Currier & Ives N[ew] Y[ork].
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf7v19p4f j

Life on the prairie: the trapper's defence [sic] "Fire fight fire"