Object Number 2000.0019.020 A

Object Name

Print (Lithograph)

Title

HAPPY LITTLE CHICKS.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of C. Porter Schutt

Creator (Role)

Currier & Ives (Lithographer and 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

Fanny F. Palmer (Designer)
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

1866

Mark or Signature or Inscription or Label

1. Inscription; Lower right; CURRIER & IVES LITH N.Y.
2. Inscription; Lower left; FROM NATURE BY FF PALER
3. Inscription; Lower center, above title; Entered according to Act of Congress AD 1866, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of United States, for the Southern Dist.\t of N.Y.
4. Inscription; Lower center, below title; PUB'D BY CURRIER & IVES, 152 NASSAU S.\T N.Y.

Subjects

Zoological illustration

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography, Hand colored

Dimensions (inches)

15.2 (H) , 18.8 (W) , 9.9 (Image H) , 13.9 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

38.5 (H) , 47.8 (W) , 9.9 (Image H) , 13.9 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Currier & Ives

Publication Date

1866

Place of Publication

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

Watermark

none

Coloring

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.2584, p.269.
[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. 1.
• Print listed as no.2944, p.301.