A Hunt Above The Timber Line
date: label: date made
content: 1890
name: label: publisher; copywriter
content: Bradlee Whidden
label: lithographer
content: Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Company
label: artist
content: Knobel, Edward
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This print is one of fifteen chromolithographs that were included in the 1889-1890 folio "Sport or Fishing and Shooting" published by Bradlee Whidden of Boston and edited by A.C. Gould. These prints are based on watercolors that were commissioned for the publication, and illustrated by prominent American artists. Each folio illustration was accompanied by a single leaf of descriptive text followed by an account of the depicted sporting scene. The publication was advertised as having been reviewed for accuracy by a renowned group of anglers and hunters prior to printing.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This print was originally titled and numbered on the text page as 13. A hunt above the timber line [Big-horn]. Edward Knobel. Depicted are four big horn sheep running across boulders in the foreground. A fifth sheep falls, shot by one of two hunters visible in the left background.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The artist was Edward Knobel (1839-1908), noted for his illustrations of plants and animals.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Boston
topic: label: Subject
content: Chronology: after 1890
label: Subject
content: Wild Animals
label: Subject
content: Hunting
label: depicted
content: Sheep
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Sport or Fishing and Shooting
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.2730
label: catalog number
content: 60.2730
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chromolithograph
label: Object Type
content: Chromolithograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 12 in x 18 in; 30.48 cm x 45.72 cm