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Currier & Ives19th century color lithograph horses figures dynamic landscape1878
1878
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"The Race for the American Derby (Belmont Stakes)" is an original hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives. It depicts three racehorses and their jockeys running in the Belmont Stakes. The caption for this lithograph says, "Spartan. Bramble. Duke of Magenta. Jerome Park, June 8th 1878. Mr. Geo. Lorillard's Duke of Magenta.....Hughes, 1....Messrs.Dwyer Bro's Bramble......Fisher, 2....Mr. P. Lorillard's Spartan.....Barrett, 3..... TIME 2:43 1/2."
12 7/8" x 16 7/8" art
21 7/8" x 25 7/8" frame
Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country.
The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed.
At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production.
Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907.
- Creator:Currier & Ives (1834 - 1907, American)
- Creation Year:1878
- Dimensions:Height: 21.875 in (55.57 cm)Width: 25.875 in (65.73 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Milwaukee, WI
- Reference Number:Seller: 8757g1stDibs: LU60532098263
Currier & Ives
Currier and Ives was a prominent American printmaking establishment headquartered in New York operating from 1835 to 1907. Nathaniel Currier (1813-1888) started his business on his own, but later merged with James Merritt Ives (1824-1895), becoming "Currier and Ives" in 1857. They produced and sold hand-colored lithographs which could be produced relatively quickly and cheaply. They called themselves "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints". The company published around 7,500 lithographs in its 72 years in business.
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