American Field Sports. Retrieving

by Currier, Ives - After Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, publishers

$6,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A dramatic scene after Arthur Tait, full of movement: a pair of retrievers quest for their master's quarry, one, successful, holds aloft a bird, the second has spotted the second injured bird. In the background their master urges them on. Tait spent the first three decades of his life in England and arrived in New York in 1850. A follower of Edwin Landseer and the style of the Pre-Raphaelites, he established himself as a realistic painter of animals and sporting scenes. He

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