The last shot

Description

Title: The last shot
Creator: Maurer, Louis, 1832-1932, artist
Contributor: Currier & Ives, engraver, publisher.
Published / Created: [1858]
Copyright Date: ©1858
Publication Place: New York and United States New York (State) New York
Publisher: Pubd. by Currier & Ives
Abstract: Print depicts an unhorsed trapper beside his fallen horse; he is shooting a dismounted indigenous man who has a tomahawk raised in his right hand as he approaches the trapper. In the background, two horses, one riderless, grassland and sky; a little less than half the print shows the partly cloudy sky
Description: Title from printed caption below image.
Below image: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1858 by Currier & Ives, in the clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern Dist. of N.Y.
Extent: 1 print : 44 x 65 cm, on sheet 60 x 81 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Lithographs
Material: hand colored ;, paper, ink, lithography, and single sided
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): West (U.S.)
Subject (Topic): Indians of North America
Trappers
Subjects: Indians of North America > Pictorial works
Trappers > West (U.S.) > Pictorial works
West (U.S.) > Pictorial works

Access: Public
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