Object Number 2000.0019.126 A

Object Name

Print (Color lithograph)

Title

QUAIL SHOOTING./ SETTERS THE PROPERTY OF S PALMER ESQ. BROOKLYN L.I.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of C. Porter Schutt

Creator (Role)

Nathaniel Currier (Lithographer and publisher)
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.

Place of Origin

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1852

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right, beneath image; LITH. AND PUBLISHED BY N. CURRIER, 152 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK.
2. Inscription; Lower left, beneath image; FROM NATURE AND ON STONE BY F.F. PALMER.
3. Inscription; Lower center, above title; Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1852 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office in the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y.

Subjects

Genre scene; Sporting pictures; Landscape

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

17.4 (H) , 24 (W) , 13 (Image H) , 20 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

44.1 (H) , 60.9 (W) , 13 (Image H) , 20 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Currier, Nathaniel

Publication Date

1852

Place of Publication

New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Watermark

none

Coloring

Colored stones and hand colored with watercolors

Object Description

Text available soon.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Book] Peters, Harry Twyford. 1929 Currier and Ives: Printmakers to the American People. 2 vols.
• Print listed as no.3332, p.343.
[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. 5414, p. 554.
[Catalogue] Delamaire, Marie-Stéphanie. 2016 Lasting Impressions: The Artists of Currier & Ives. 40
• Published: pp.10-11