Bird Hunting | Fine Antique Prints

(Wild Turkey) Hunting and Fishing Magazine. Mt. Morris, Illinois and Boston, MA, 1930.

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A beautiful, painterly yet realistic image from a vintage magazine. Containing advertisements for fishing lures, hunting knives and other equipment for sportsmen.

Sold for 5 cents and carrying the tag line “Patronize Your Local Sporting Goods Dealer.”

Created using the then relatively new development in color printing called half tone color lithography.

Color lithograph.

11 ½ inches x 8 3/8, sheet. 15 1/8 x 11 ½, inches overall framed size.

Framed to museum specifications with museum glass.

Excellent condition.

after F.F. Palmer. Quail Shooting. New York: N. Currier, 1852

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“Quail Shooting”

A wonderful medium folio shooting image based upon the painting by Frances Flora Bond (Fanny) Palmer, the artist of some of Currier and Currier and Ives most significant lithographs. This one depicts two hunters in an autumn landscape accompanying by three pointing setter dogs. One hunter takes aim as three quail flush from the brush below.

Hand colored lithograph.
15 ½ x 22 inches, sheet.
Professionally conserved and backed. As shown in photograph, some issues with the top and bottom margins. Good condition overall.

Currier and Ives. (Partridge Shooting) New York, 1870

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“Patridge Shooting”

A wonderful image of two pointing dogs flushing one partridge while another continues to hide in the brush below. A wooded landscape and hills fill the background.

Hand colored lithograph.
Approximately 10 1/2 x 14 inches, sheet.
Beautifuly preserved color. Excellent condition save small tear in margin at left without paper loss.
Framed to 16 x 20 inches.

(Shooting, Ladies) Plate 109. Journal des Dames … Paris, 1912-1914

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“Costumes de Chasse serge verte et eccosaise”

This remarkable antique fashion print is from
Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costumes Parisiens
. The rare work was published between 1912 and 1914 with only 1,279 copies printed per issue. Leading artists of the time contributed to the
Journal
including Barbier, Brunelleschii, Bakst, J. van Brock, Wegener, Drian, and many others.

Journal des Dames
sought to be an expression of French elegance and style. It showed the fashion and culture of early 20th century France. Each illustration was printed on high quality paper using excellent pochoir coloring. Pochoir is created when single layers of color are added by hand to a lithograph using a stencil.

A depiction of a fabulously fashionable French woman dressed for a day of shooting. She wears a green jacket over a coordinating plaid skirt. Her cuffs match the skirt. While she carries a shotgun she seems to be shooing a rabbit away so it does not seem that it is her quarry.

8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, sheet.
Pouchoir colored lengraving
Excellent condition.

(Hunter) …Work of Animals… London: Edward Orme, 1811

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(Hunter with dogs)
A beautifully engraved aquatint from
A New Work of Animals Principally Designed from The Fables of Aesop, Gay, and Phaedrus
. A young puppy thinks he has picked up the scent. The pack knows he’s wrong and ignores him, but he persists to howl in vain, convinced that they are ignoring him out of jealousy. The huntsman punishes him: “When puppies prate’, the huntsman cried, ‘they show both ignorance and pride: fools may our scorn, not envy raise, for envy is a kind of praise. Had not they forward noisy tongue proclaimed thee always in the wrong, thou might’st have mingled with the rest, and ne’er thy foolish nose confess’d…
John Fay: But fools, to talking ever prone, Are sure to make their follies known.’

8 ¼ x 10 ¾ inches, sheet
Handcolored aquatint engraving.
Excellent condition

(Shooting, Ladies) Plate 22. Journal des Dames … Paris, 1912-1914

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Plate 22 “Costume de chasse en laine d’Ecosse”

This remarkable antique fashion print of a female hunter is from
Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costumes Parisiens
. The rare work was published between 1912 and 1914 with only 1,279 copies printed per issue. Leading artists of the time contributed to the
Journal
including Barbier, Brunelleschii, Bakst, J. van Brock, Wegener, Drian, and many others.

A depiction of a fabulously fashionable French man and woman dressed for a day of shooting. They stand behind a blind. Her hunting outfit included a fitted window pane Scottish woolen jacket with matching skirt, high button boots and a hat.

8 ½ x 5 ¼ inches, sheet.
Pouchoir colored engraving.
Excellent condition.