A Sharp Rifle, with the Bulge in the Shooter
Thomas Worth, American, 1834 - 1917
1882
Color lithograph on wove paper
Image: 9 × 13 5/8 in. (22.8 × 34.6 cm)
Sheet: 11 15/16 × 17 11/16 in. (30.3 × 45 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. David G. Stahl, Class of 1947
PR.2001.49.1
Publisher
Currier & Ives
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in image, lower right: Thos.Worth; inscribed, in print, lower left: PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES; inscribed, in print, lower right: 115 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK.; inscribed, in print, lower center: COPYRIGHT 1882, BY CURRIER & IVES, N.Y. / A SHARP RIFLE. / With the bulge on the Shooter.
Exhibition History
Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 4-December 11, 2005.
No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in conjunction with the Humanities Institute, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6-December 9, 2007.
Publication History
Barbara Thompson, Fred Wilson, So Much Trouble in the World - Believe It or Not!, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005.
Provenance
Unknown estate; sold to Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Manchester, New Hampshire, about 1975; given to present collection, 2001.
Catalogue Raisonne
Gale Research Co, Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonne, Vol. 2, p. 612, no. 5883, 1983.
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