Currier & Ives Lithograph, "The Battery, New York"
kg: Currier & Ives Lithograph, "The Battery, New York" [Arts & Entertainment]
Hand colored small folio lithograph. 1815.
K08680 $1,950
Currier & Ives. Firm of American lithographers, active during the 19th century. The firm developed from a business founded in New York City around 1834 by Nathaniel Currier (1813-88). Currier’s first successful print depicted the destruction of a large part of lower Manhattan by an 1835 fire. This lithograph was followed by the series, now known as Currier & Ives prints, devoted to contemporary subjects that ranged from the familiar to the sensational: scenes of social and domestic life, public disasters and raids by Native Americans.
In 1857, Currier promoted to partnership in the firm the artist James Merritt Ives (1824-95), whom he had employed as a bookkeeper. Thereafter all prints by the firm bore the dual trademark. After the deaths of the partners, the firm continued until 1907. Today original Currier & Ives prints, some hand colored, are valuable collectors’ items.
Hand colored small folio lithograph. 1815.
K08680 $1,950
Currier & Ives. Firm of American lithographers, active during the 19th century. The firm developed from a business founded in New York City around 1834 by Nathaniel Currier (1813-88). Currier’s first successful print depicted the destruction of a large part of lower Manhattan by an 1835 fire. This lithograph was followed by the series, now known as Currier & Ives prints, devoted to contemporary subjects that ranged from the familiar to the sensational: scenes of social and domestic life, public disasters and raids by Native Americans.
In 1857, Currier promoted to partnership in the firm the artist James Merritt Ives (1824-95), whom he had employed as a bookkeeper. Thereafter all prints by the firm bore the dual trademark. After the deaths of the partners, the firm continued until 1907. Today original Currier & Ives prints, some hand colored, are valuable collectors’ items.