WOODCOCK SHOOTING.
Prints and Maps
Nathaniel Currier (Lithographer)
Fanny F. Palmer (Designer and lithographer)
Currier & Ives (Publisher)
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1852
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)
Lithography, Hand colored, Painted
2000.0019.097 A
Object Number2000.0019.097 A |
Print (Lithograph)
WOODCOCK SHOOTING.
Prints and Maps
Bequest of C. Porter Schutt
Nathaniel Currier (Lithographer)
03/27/1813-11/20/1888
Fanny F. Palmer (Designer and lithographer)
1812-08/20/1876
Fanny Palmer began working for Nathaniel Currier (later Currier & Ives) about 1851, and is today credited with over 200 signed lithographs and countless others unsigned.
Currier & Ives (Publisher)
1857-1907
References: Last, The Color Explosion, pp. 66-7; Peters, America on Stone.
Listed in New York City directories:
152 Nassau Street and 2 Spruce Street, 1857-65
152 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1866-72
125 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1872-74
123 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1874-77
115 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1877-94
108 Fulton Street and 33 Spruce Street, 1894-96
33 Spruce Street, 1896-1907
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
1852
1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; LITH. OF N. CURRIER N.Y.
2. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; FROM NATURE AND ON STONE BY F.F. PALMER.
3. Inscription; Lower center, beneath title; NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES, 152 NASSAU STREET.
4. Inscription; Lower center, above title; Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y.
Genre scene; Sporting pictures; Landscape
Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)
Lithography, Hand colored, Painted
16.7 (H) , 23.9 (W) , 12.7 (Image H) , 20.2 (Image W)
42.3 (H) , 60.7 (W) , 12.7 (Image H) , 20.2 (Image W)
H at left. W at bottom.
Currier & Ives
1852
New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
none
Hand colored with watercolors
Text available soon.
[Book] Peters, Harry Twyford. 1929 Currier and Ives: Printmakers to the American People. 2 vols.
• Print listed as no.3359, pp.400-401.
[Book] Gale Research Company & Reilly, Bernard F. 1984 Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A Comprehensive catalogue of the lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merrit Ives and Charles Currier, including ephemera associated with the firm, 1834-1907. 2.
• Print listed as cat. no.7321, p.758.