Object Number 1969.2800 A

Object Name

Print (Color lithograph)

Title

WASHINGTON'S RECEPTION BY THE LADIES, ON PASSING THE/ BRIDGE AT TRENTON, N.J. APRIL 1789,/ ON HIS WAY TO NEW YORK TO BE INAUGURATED FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

Category

Prints and Maps

Credit Line/Donor

Bequest of Henry Francis du Pont

Creator (Role)

Nathaniel Currier (Lithographer and publisher)
03/27/1813-11/20/1888

Place of Origin

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

Date

1845-1845

Subjects

Historical; Washington, George

Materials

Ink; Watercolor; Paper (wove)

Techniques

Lithography, Hand colored, Painted

Dimensions (inches)

13.9 (H) , 10 (W) , 13.1 (Image H) , 8.7 (Image W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

35.2 (H) , 25.5 (W) , 13.1 (Image H) , 8.7 (Image W)

Measurement Notes

H at left. W at bottom.

Publisher Summary

Currier, Nathaniel

Publication Date

1845

Place of Publication

33 Spruce Street, New York, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

State

Proof without letters

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 cat. no.1020, p.394.
[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.
• See cat. nos.7075-7081, pp.738-739.