Lot Essay
The composition of this print closely relates to the Currier & Ives lithograph of the same title (C. 6125; P. 1575) which also seems to be based on Ranney's original painting.
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After WILLIAM RANNEY
The Trappers' Last Shot, by T.D. Booth
engraving with hand-coloring and touches of gum arabic, 1850, on wove paper, published by J.M. Emerson & Co., New York, with margins, several foxmarks in the image and margins, light-staining, staining on the reverse, taped to the overmat with paper tape at the reverse of the extreme top and bottom margin edges, framed
L. 17¾ x 23½in. (451 x 597mm.)
The Trappers' Last Shot, by T.D. Booth
engraving with hand-coloring and touches of gum arabic, 1850, on wove paper, published by J.M. Emerson & Co., New York, with margins, several foxmarks in the image and margins, light-staining, staining on the reverse, taped to the overmat with paper tape at the reverse of the extreme top and bottom margin edges, framed
L. 17¾ x 23½in. (451 x 597mm.)