Field scene. Two hunters in boat perched in along tall grass on shore aside a river. Caught game sits in boat and on ground next to two hunting dogs.
Currier & Ives created many prints which showed America at play. Hunting and fishing were popular leisure time activities for both country and city folk. Many hunting scenes that Currier & Ives printed were the designs of Arthur Tait and Frances (Fanny) Palmer. Palmer’s husband was a hunter and it is noted that she accompanied him on several hunting trips. Palmer sketched what she observed, including her husband and his dogs. In Wild Duck Shooting. A Good Day’s Sport, a hunter, watched by his dog, stands in a boat loading his gun. His companion sits beside him on the edge of the boat, taking a duck from the mouth of the second dog.
