Burt's print reproduces the 1850 Ranney painting On the wing, which portrays a duck hunting scene in a marsh; a boy, a dog, and a sportsman, with dead game at his feet; sportsman about to shoot down the next bird; transom of small boat shown in grass to right; line of birds flying above, center left
Description:
BEIN Broadsides Box 2024 35: On sheet 13.7 x 19.0 cm. Handwritten below image: On the wing., Title devised by cataloger., and Another state was issued in 1852 by D. Appleton & Co. in Ornaments of Memory.