CURRIER & IVES (publishers) - After Arthur Fitzwilliam TAIT (1819-1905)

American Field Sports. "Retrieving"

New York: Currier & Ives, 1857. Lithograph, coloured by hand, by Charles Parsons. Sheet size: 21 5/8 x 29 3/4 inches. Framed.

A dramatic scene after Arthur Tait, full of movement: a pair of retrievers quest for their master's quarry, one, successful, holds aloft a bird, the second has spotted the second injured bird. In the background their master urges them on.

Tait spent the first three decades of his life in England and arrived in New York in 1850. A follower of Edwin Landseer and the style of the Pre-Raphaelites, he established himself as a realistic painter of animals and sporting scenes. He kept a summer studio at a camp in the Adirondack Mountains, where he painted sporting scenes. He and Nathaniel Currier sometimes hunted together. 'These wilderness scenes, often composed around an anecdote, appealed to a wide popular audience, and from 1852 Currier & Ives as well as Louis Prang published a number of lithographs and chromolithographs of his work.' (Grove / Artnet)

Conningham 151; Gale 164.

Item #6284

Price: $6,000.00