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Lot 677

5 Scarce, Early Frederic Remington Lithographs Incl. Smith & Wesson

Estimate: $600 - $800
Starting Bid
$300

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Items 1-3: Three (3) lithographs after Frederic Remington (American, 1861-1909) published by Smith & Wesson Arms Company, 1902. Each after paintings commissioned by Smith & Wesson and reproduced as lithographs, as in the present examples, as well as in halftone in smaller format for magazine advertisements. 1st Item: Lithograph titled "A Critical Moment" with a cowboy who lies beside a fallen horse and points a pistol at a bull as a rider with a lasso approaches from the background. This image was also published in Collier's Weekly, October 18, 1902. 2nd Item:  Lithograph titled "Hands Off" with a man on snowshoes who holds a gun as he defends his dogsled from two thieves. This image was also published in Scribner's Magazine, August 1902, and The Cosmopolitan, August 1902. 3rd Item: Lithograph titled "With the Wolfhounds" with two cowboys on horseback who follow a pair of wolfhound flanking a wolf. This image was also published in Harper's Monthly, December, 1902. Each item signed in the stone and titled in pencil to mat. Each housed under glass in painted wood frames with cream mats with French lines. Each sight: 14 1/4 in H x 13 7/16 in W. Each frame: 22 1/2 in H x 21 in W. 4th - 5th Items: Two (2) chromolithographs after Frederic Remington from the portfolio "Sport or Fishing and Shooting" published by Bradlee Whidden, Boston, 1889-90. Item 4: Lithograph titled "Goose Shooting" with two hunters, possibly a father and son, who hide behind a small hill and look out at several groups of geese that swim and fly in the distance. The boy quiets a dog and two dead geese lie on the ground between the figures. Item 5: Lithograph titled "Antelope Shooting" with two hunters and their horses in a desert landscape. One of the hunters kneels behind a ridge in the middleground as he points a rifle at a distant group of antelopes. Both signed in the stone and with "Copyright 1890 Bradlee Whidden" text in the stone along lower edge of images. "Antelope Shooting" titled to mat in pencil. With window mat with French lines, missing back of mat. Unframed. Both sheets: 18 in H x 24 in W. Item 5 mat: 18 1/2 in H x 24 in W. 

 

Condition

First through third items in overall very good condition. First item with pinhole punctures to corners and associated minor staining plus several specks of foxing or staining to upper left, in background. 2nd item with faint staining or discoloration to upper left, primarily outside of figures. Not examined out of frames. Mats with toning. Fourth and fifth items in overall very good condition, with toning to sheets. "Fourth item with liquid splatter primarily to margins, several specks in image at lower left. With pinhole punctures and dogear creases to upper corners, missing lower left corner and tip of upper right corner. 3/4 in L tear to left edge of sheet, outside of image. 5th item with dampstaining to center left of image, 2 1/2 in L tideline, plus wrinkle/irregularity in paper at upper right, possibly inherent, 1 1/2 in L. Additional wrinkle to sheet at upper right, 1 1/4 in L, plus  dogear creases to left corners and 1/2 in L tear to upper left edge. Minor grime or soiling to margins and along edges. Mat with scattered staining and missing back. 

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