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Title: “Before the shot.”
Creator: Bensell, Edmund Birckhead, 1842-, artist
L. Prang & Co., printer
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1878
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of a hunter standing with a rifle in hand looking towards a bird sitting on a branch; three hunting dogs stand ready for the hunt, one pointing under the bird in the tree; two small children perched on a wood fence look on, one with hands over her ears in anticipation of the gunshot.
Registration marks visible in margins. "Copyright 1878 by L. Prang & Co."--text, bottom center of image. "Bensell"--text, artist's signature, bottom right of image.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 22.86 x 29.21 cm (9 x 11 1/2 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002247
413292
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3554
Language: English
Subject: Children--Pictorial works
Dogs--Pictorial works
Hunting--Pictorial works
Men--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Proofs. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Louis Prang Archive
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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