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Title: A dead point!
Creator: Derby, George Horatio (1823-1861), American?, artist (attributed to)
Date Created and/or Issued: [18--]
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Figure of long-nosed hunter in English dress preparing to shoot two game birds few feet away using large musket; birds and dog point at one another; small figure at right carries bag, his hair raised in fright and cap popping off; church in distance.
Handwritten title (LC). Handwritten (LR): West Point/Army mess. Attribution based on information from Inventory Sheets.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on tinted paper: pen and ink 19.4 x 31.8 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf8j49p5cb
BANC PIC 1963.002:0235--C
Subject: Animals
Arms & armaments
Clothing & dress
Hunting

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