Guide to the lincoln collection, currier and ives lithographs 18441890 search this finding aid. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Guide to the lincoln collection, currier and ives lithographs 18441890. A current listing of our inventory of original antique prints issued by nathaniel currier and currier and ives in the ninteenth century. This depiction features a steam engine trapped in a snow bank, as twelve men shovel to free her. Original prints by currier and ives, americas printmakers.
The american firm of currier and ives has a very secure place in art history. Guide to the lincoln collection, currier and ives lithographs 1844. Dodd and other faculty members in the department of history, bartons collection of books and manuscripts on abraham lincoln and the. The company was the leading source of popular art that was inspired both by wellknown artists and. In the case of the first widely distributed disaster print issued by n. I have 5 x 7 of the currier and ives american homestead 4. Featured texts all books all texts latest this just in smithsonian libraries fedlink us genealogy lincoln collection. What they say about snow in new england new england historical society. Currier in the clerks office of the district court of the southern. Currier and ives prints were available in abundance during the nineteenth century. The main focus of the club is to collect and preserve the history as well as the products manufactured by royal china of sebring ohio. They yield the most extensive visual display of an era which could otherwise only be lived through the written pages of history. Search the history of over 424 billion web pages on the internet.
Each lithograph is 11 x 14 inches, allowing for wide margins. The pendleton brothers established their business in 1824, importing from europe the stones, presses, artists, and craftsmen to publish prints and do commercial or job printing. History currier and ives dinnerware collectors club. Examples of appraisal values for currier and ives lithograph. Provenance certainly plays a significant role in the collection of any item or work of art. Located in lower manhattan, the business was spectacularly prolific, producing an average of three or four new prints of a wide variety of subjects every week for fifty years. It depicts a train moving through the countryside to the ocean.
Guide to the lincoln collection, currier and ives lithographs. Customize your currier and ives print with hundreds of. A large format reissue collection of currier and ives lithographs from the roy king collection. Instant price guides to discover the market value for currier and ives lithograph. I have 5 x 7 of the currier and ives american homestead. Large currier and ives lithograph american homestead winter christmas. The railroad, well established throughout the country by 1870, provided one of the most important ways that people traveled to the west coast. Media in category currier and ives civil war lithographs the following 61 files are in this category, out of 61 total. Again, the america proved superior and claimed the trophy, a large silver urn, which later came to be known as the americas cup.
Bennett, single sheet, printed within 5line border incorporating caption, handcoloured engraved surface measuring 225mm. This book was published in 1987, a reprint of a 1968 edition. November 20, 1888, new york, new york and james merritt ives b. Their prints sold by the thousands for five to twentyfive cents apiece and never for more than three dollars apiece. Surprisingly, few painters depicted the train in their scenes of the west. The lithographs were created between 1861 and 1863. Each currier and ives art print is produced using archival inks, ships within 48 hours, and comes with a 30day money back guarantee. First done in the 1930s, this was a way to examine how tastes have changed. William eleazar barton 18611930 was one of the early twentieth centurys most prominent writers and lecturers on the life of abraham lincoln.
The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and. They could even be described as a cultural phenomenon of the victorian era. While individual reactions to historical images were seldom documented. See more ideas about currier and ives, prints and printmaking. The first convention was in morton il at the pepper mill restaurant. There are 60 lithographs and they seem to be arranged by time period. Customize your currier and ives print with hundreds of different frames and mats, if desired. The lithograph had descended from the collection of thomas winthrop streeterthe.
After undertaking apprenticeships in boston and philadelphia, currier set up a print publishing company in new york city in 1834. I have 5 x 7 of the currier and ives american homestead 4 part spring, summer, fall, winter lithographs. In december 2018 swann sold one of the firms most idyllic western pictures. Currier and ives lithographs touched on almost everything in american life during this period the growing cities, the railway, hunting, conflict in the west, gold mining, exploration, politics and much more. Currier and ivess own sales sloganpopular cheap printsfor the firms later. Currier and ives, vintage lettering, hand coloring, printmaking. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. Lithographic prints could be reproduced quickly and purchased inexpensively, and the. Items similar to cross stitch pattern pdf central park winter skating pond pdf. The world of currier and ives burke davis, roy king on.
Property from the credit suisse americana collection. May 20, 2014 currier and ives was a successful american printmaking firm headed by nathaniel currier 181888 and james merritt ives 18241895. This company produced a huge number of prints from paintings as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Historical illustrations, currier and ives, winter scenes. Find prices for currier and ives lithograph to help when appraising. Although it is difficult to summarize the diverse output of the firm founded by nathaniel currier and james merritt ives as new yorks eminent printmakers to the people, this extant lithograph stone fig. Shop for currier and ives art prints from our community of independent artists and iconic brands.
Except as noted, all of the following original antique prints. Based in new york city from 18341907, the prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Color plates reproduced from the original hand colored stone prints by n. A humming trot, the first trot of the season and a nip an tuck race together at the first turn. Farm scenes and the road winter 1968 vintage book page 12 x 9 on etsy. The number of prints produced from each stone engraving is not known, since very few records were kept or survived through the years. Bookstore of reference books on currier and ives prints. My cover art has a white border around it, but it comes in black, too.
Palmer f f currier ives abebooks shop for books, art. Selfdescribed as publishers of cheap and popular pictures, but better described by collectors and admirers as the printmakers to the american people, their works captured the pulse of 19th century american life and remain among the most. If the print is recognizable as a currier and ives but contains no information, the edges of the print may have been trimmed away or it may be. Currier, entered according to act of congress in the year 1859 by n.
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