Object Details
- Childs, John
- Description (Brief)
- Colored print of an outdoor scene of a group of men and children with long rifles standing together in front of a large building and under a tree, preparing to shoot turkeys in the distant snow-covered field. Another group of similar men engage in the same activity in the background. Everyone is wearing tall bots and dressed in mid 19th Century outdoor clothing.
- John Childs, was an engraver, lithographer, artist, and print colorist active in New York between the years 1836 to 1844, and in Philadelphia from 1848 through the 1860's . For a brief period while in New York, he published a quantity of political cartoons.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- after 1862
- ID Number
- DL.60.2416
- catalog number
- 60.2416
- accession number
- 228146
- Object Name
- lithograph
- Object Type
- Lithograph
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- image: 10 1/2 in x 14 1/4 in; 26.67 cm x 36.195 cm
- place made
- United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Related Publication
- Peters, Harry T.. America on Stone
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- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Horses
- Architecture
- Children
- Birds
- referenced
- Thanksgiving
- Holidays and Celebrations, general
- Subject
- Hunting
- Record ID
- nmah_324751
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a1-35b4-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
