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A Close Calculation: Don't You Wish You May Get It?

Lithographer Nathaniel Currier American
Publisher Nathaniel Currier American
1846–56
Not on view
In front of its kennel, at the base of a flight of steps, a chained dog strains to bite a monkey's tail which the monkey makes sure to hold just out of reach.

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Object Information
  • Title: A Close Calculation: Don't You Wish You May Get It?
  • Lithographer: Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)
  • Publisher: Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)
  • Date: 1846–56
  • Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
  • Dimensions: Image: 8 1/4 × 12 3/4 in. (21 × 32.4 cm)
    Sheet: 11 1/8 × 15 1/8 in. (28.2 × 38.4 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
  • Object Number: 63.550.350
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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