Name/Title
OPENING OF THE OYSTER SEASONEntry/Object ID
L.2007.279Description
Page from Harper's Weekly with a series of wood engravings of men fishing for oysters: a line of text along the top separated from the image with two lines reads, "584; HARPER'S WEEKLY.; VOLUME XXVI., NO. 1343."; below is a scene of men standing in shallow water and one man on a small boat holding two long poles into the water with a "1" in the top left corner and a "3" in the top right corner; this scene is overlaid with a large barnacled oyster in center, with a "2" printed above; in left center is a view a large fish swimming, captioned with a "4"; in center is a scene of men sitting behind baskets of oysters, captioned with a "5"; above is a series of tools on a wood plank, captioned with a "6"; to the right is a pair of starfish in the water, captioned with a "7"; below on left is a net, captioned with an "8"; below is a scene of three swimming jellyfish, captioned with a "9"; on the right is a scene of small houses on docks with sailboats captioned with a "10"; there is a signature printed in bottom left; below the scene is printed, "1. Dredging through the Ice. 2. Oyster-Shell covered with Young. 3. Dredging from a Boat. 4. Drum-Fish. 5. Opening Oysters for Export. 6. Oyster Knives. 7. Star-Fish. 8. Dredge. 9. Young Oyster. 10. Oyster Sloops at foot of West Tenth Street. OPENING OF THE OYSTER SEASON. - DRAWN BY DAN. BEARD.-[SEE PAGE 582.]"; recto is a page of text; paper is dated September 16, 1882.Made/Created
Artist Information
Artist
Daniel BeardAttribution
ArtistManufacturer
Harper's WeeklyDate made
Sep 16, 1882Dimensions
Dimension Description
OverallHeight
16 inWidth
11 inDimension Notes
Display Dimensions: 16 x 11 in. (40.6 x 27.9 cm)Condition
Notes
Remarks: Creased along top edge; liquid stain bottom left and bottom center; small tears along left edge; tear bottom right and right bottom; small tear and loss, top center.Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
William DieboldNotes
Former ownerGeneral Notes
Note Type
Curatorial RemarksNote
Diebold Box #2Note Type
StorageNoteNote
Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Administrative Office, Archive Room, Shelf O3, B9Note Type
DepartmentNote
Library