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Art Subject: Horse
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, The Circus by Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper
Year: 1952
Paper Size: 12.125 x 9.25 inches
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, The Circus by Toulouse-Lautrec, 1...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Le Pont
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching, engraving, roulette and drypoint on watermarked BFK Rives wove paper, 5 x 8 3/4 inches (126 x 222 mm), full margins. Signed and numbered 4/32 in pencil, lower margin. Minor ...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Engraving
Two Cavaliers (after Herman Swanevelt)
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream laid paper with a large foolscap watermark, 5 5/8 x 7 7/8 (150 x 200 mm), thread margins. In excellent condition with a light pencil inscription and an inventory num...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
New Orleans - Original Woodcut - 1890
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 7.2 x 12.7 cm.
New Orleans is a black and white xylograph on paper, realized in 1890 by anonymous artist, of incredible fineness.
Of little dimensions but high meticulousness of sign, this original print presents us a lost and historical view on the New Orleans port...
Category
1890s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Original Historic Carlisle - Gateway to Scotland vintage railroad poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original British vintage poster: Historic Carlisle - Gateway to Scotland. Artist: Maurice Greiffenhagen. Horizontal size 39" x 48.75". Archival linen-backed original stone lithograph; ready to frame. In very good to excellent condition.
Original, 1925 horizontal travel by train stone lithograph. Historic Carlisle ~ 800 years of Civic Independence. See Britain by train. British Railways. Published by British Railways (London Midland Region) LM 16657.
Probably the most famous British railway poster of the 1920s. The LMS commissioned designs from 16 leading Royal Academicians in 1924, of which this was by far the most popular.
A British Royal seal...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Plage de Villerville
Located in Middletown, NY
Paris: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1856.
Drypoint etching on cream laid paper, 4 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches (124 x 245 mm), full margins. In good condition with light uniform age tone. Fourth s...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
I Lancers Regiment - Lithograph by Antonio Zezon - 1854
Located in Roma, IT
I Lancers Regiment is a lithograph by Antonio Zezon. Naples 1854.
Interesting colored lithograph which describes two members of the Lancers Regiment: in the foreground an Officer ri...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, The Circus by Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper
Year: 1952
Paper Size: 9.25 x 12.125 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, The Circus by Toulouse...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Chevaux de Selle et d'Attelage - Original Lithograph - Late 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Chevaux de Selle et d'Attelage is an original Lithograph, realized by an anonymous artist in the late 20th Century.
The status of preservation Good.
The artwork is depicted skillfu...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Soldiers On Horses - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Soldiers On Horses is a print realized by the French School of 18th Century.
Etching, with coeval hand watercolor on paper.
Applied on a Passepartout...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
$206 Sale Price
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Cavaliers Egyptiens - Lithograph by Auguste Wahlen - 1844
Located in Roma, IT
Cavaliers Egyptiens is a hand colored lithographs realized by Auguste Wahlen in 1844.
Good condition.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Moeurs, usages et costumes de tous les peuple...
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Place Saint Georges, Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Gebbie & Husson Co., 1879.
Héliogravure and engraving on cream wove paper, 10 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches (258 x 310 mm), full margins. In good condition with some very minor margin...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Landscape Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Engraving, Photogravure
Pierre François Beaumont (1719-1777) - 18th Century Engraving, Hunting Delay
Located in Corsham, GB
Pierre François Beaumont (1719-1777) after Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668). Inscribed in French in the plate. Presented in a black veneer frame with a verre églomisé mount. On paper.
Category
18th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Giuseppe Garibaldi - Lithograph by Antonio Masutti - 1860
Located in Roma, IT
Garibaldi is a rare original Colored Lithograph, realized by Antonio Masutti in the 1960.
The status of preservation Good.
The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident and ...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Una Reina del Circo - Etching and and Aquatint by Francisco Goya - 1877 (1815)
Located in Roma, IT
Una Reina del Circo is a modern artwork realized by Francisco Goya.
Etching and Aquatint, from the Series "Los Proverbios", realized in 1815.
Thi...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
North View of St. Paul's Cathedral, London English School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
London: Tallis & Co., 1851
Lithograph on cream wove paper, 11 3/4 x 15 3/4 inches (297 x 398 mm), with vaulted margins at the top sheet edge. Significant toning, and some edge wear. ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Interior Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
Le Couvent dans la Vallée - Etching By Antoine-François Bauduins - 17th
Located in Roma, IT
Le couvent dans la vallée is an original etching realized in the 17th Century by Antoine-François Bauduins (1640 1700).
Trimmed, very good conditions.
Signed on the plate.
The art...
Category
17th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Arch Enemy, Surrealist Pop Art Mixed Media Painting by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
A limited edition mixed media print on canvas mounted to wood by American artist and educator Michael Knigin (1942 - 2011). Knigin's art incorporates his photography, collage and his...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Figurative Prints
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Les Affiches De Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on grand vélin Filigrané a sa marque paper
Year: 1950
Paper Size: 12.5 x 9.75 inches; image size: 10.24 x 7.87 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumber...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and u...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Une porte d'auberge / Inn Door
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on Chine collé mounted to cream wove paper, 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 inches (97 x 147 mm), full margins. With a pencil notation in the right margin on the recto (outside of image area),...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
Gentlemen and Hunting Dogs - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two Gentlemen Riding Horses - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Departure - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Greeting - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Jump - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gentlemen Riding Horses - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gentlemen Riding Horses - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gentleman Riding a Horse - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gentleman Riding a Horse - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Two Gentlemen Riding Horses - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gentleman Riding a Horse - Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Lithograph realized in 19th Century.
In very good condition, it is matted in a black mat.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Charing Cross - The Statue of Charles I.
Located in Storrs, CT
Charing Cross -- The Statue of Charles I. 1919. Etching with aquatint and drypoint. 3 5/8 x 4 7/8 (sheet 9 1/8 x 11 3/8). A fine proof with tonal wiping, printed on cream-wove paper. Signed in pencil.
Charing Cross is located at the junction of the Strand, Whitehall, and Cockspur Street in Central London, England. The name originates from the Eleanor cross installed by King Edward I as a memorial to his wife, Eleanor of Castile at the former hamlet of Charing. Since 1675, the cross site has been occupied by a statue of King Charles I mounted on a horse. The pedestal is thought to be designed by Wren and carved by Grinling Gibbons.
Chelsea Old Church, also known as All Saints, is an Anglican church, on Old Church Street, Chelsea, London SW3, England, near Albert Bridge. It is the church for a parish in the Diocese of London, part of the Church of England. Inside the Grade I listed building, there is seating for 400 people. There is a memorial plaque to the author Henry James (1843–1916) who lived nearby on Cheyne Walk. To the west of the church is a small public garden containing a sculpture by Sir Jacob Epstein.
When he was seventeen,William Walcot began to study architecture under Louis Benois at the Imperial Academy of Art in Saint Petersburg. He went to Paris where he continued his studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and the Atelier Redon. He practiced as an architect briefly in Moscow, designing the Hotel...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
$780 Sale Price
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Ayant Couru à Chantilly - Etching by Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Ayant Couru à Chantilly is an artwork realized by Jacques-Joseph Lecurieux in the 1870s.
Etching.
Good conditions.
Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the init...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
La Champagne - Etching by Charles Jaque - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
La Champagne is an artwork realized by Charles Jaque in the 1870s.
Etching.
Good conditions.
Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of the publisher A...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Original Loterie nationale L'arc de Triomphe vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Loterie Nationale, Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe vintage French poster. Artist: Bernard Villemot. Archival linen backed in excellent, mint condition, ready to frame.
The image features five modernism-style jockeys on racehorses for this 1974 poster...
Category
1970s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Une Famille de Philosophes - Etching by Michel-Amédée Besnus - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Une Famille de Philosophes is a black and White etching realized by Michel-Amédée Besnus in the 1860s.
Titled in the lower.
Image size: 28x23.
Very good impression with wide marg...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Epinal Print, Bataille De Mareng - Original Hand-color Lithograph - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Epinal Print, Bataille De Marengo is an original Hand-colored lithograph realized by an Anonymous artist of the XIX century.
Signed on the plate "Georgin"on the lower right.
With t...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Towards Exile - Original Lithograph by Pietro Morando - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
Towards Exile is an original artwork realized by Italian artist Pietro Morando (Alessandria 1889- 1980).
Original Lithograph.
Hand-signed on the lower right in pencil, titled and d...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and u...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Chemin de Halage
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Chemin de Halage" c.1930 is a color etching with aquatint on Wove paper by French artist Ferdinand Jean Luigini, 1870-1943. It is hand signed and titled in penci...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Ride - Woodcut by Paul Emile Colin - 1930 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Paul Emile Colin in 1930s.
Monogrammed in the plate.
Very good condition.
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Riders - Woodcut Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rider Taming a Horse is an original print realized by Chinese manufacture in the early/mid 20th century.
Black and white xylograph.
Good conditions except for some foxings.
Includ...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Julian Trevelyan, Trafalgar Square, etching and aquatint
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of London and our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller".
Julian Trevelyan (1910-19...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, The Circus by Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper
Year: 1952
Paper Size: 12.125 x 9.25 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, The Circus by Toulouse...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Liber Veritatis - Original B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 21 x 27 cm.
Liber Veritatis - Plate 191 is a beautiful black and white etching and aquatint on paper realized by the Italian artist ...
Category
1810s Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Aufbruch Zur Jagd - Etching by Wilhelm Woernle - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Aufbruch Zur Jagd is an Etching realized by Wilhelm Woernle in the 19th Century.
Good condition.
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Black horse. Figurative Surrealist print, Vibrant colors, Polish art master
Located in Warsaw, PL
Vibrant giclee limited edition print by worldwidely established Polish artist Rafal Olbinski. Figurative surrealistic print with an animal which is a black horse with wings made out ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Color
Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, The Circus by Toulouse-Lautrec (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper
Year: 1952
Paper Size: 12.125 x 9.25 inches
Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, The Circus by Toulouse...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Composition, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Circus (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on vélin paper, hinged on archival backing paper, as issued
Year: 1967
Paper Size: 17.32 x 14.17 inches (backing paper size)
Inscription: Signed in the plate and u...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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The Sorrel - Original Screen Print by Gianni Testa - 1986
By Gianni Testa
Located in Roma, IT
The Sorrel is an original print realized by the Italian artist Gianni Testa in 1986.
Original mixed colored screen print.
Hand-signed by the artist on the lower left. Numbered on...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Screen
Un Marèchal à Moret - Etching by Jules Jacques Veyrassat - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Un Marèchal à Moret is a black and white etching realized by Jules Jacques Veyrassat (1828-1893) in 1870s.
Titled in the lower.
Image size: 27cmx19cm.
Good condition.
Signed on t...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Miguel, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Miguel, Year: 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 16.5 x 22 in., Size: 21 in. x 28.5 in...
Category
1970s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Chevaux de Poste - Etching by Charles Amédée de Boret - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
Chevaux de Poste is a black and white etching realized by Charles Amédée de Boret (1837–1916) in 1870s.
Titled in the lower.
Image size: 20cmx26.5cm.
Very Good condition.
Signed ...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Claret - Etching by James Barenger - 1822
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and aquatint realized by James Barenger in 1822. Table from "The Sporting Repository", first edition.
Very good condition.
James Barenger (1780-1831) was an english animal ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
A Galop with Jem Hills from Bradwell Grove, English hunting lithograph, c1850
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'A Galop with Jem Hills from Bradwell Grove'
Tinted lithograph with hand-colouring after the picture by Rev Tatton Winter.
340mm by 430mm (sheet)
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Cheval et âne en Provence, Vingt fables de La fontaine, Yves Brayer
By Yves Brayer
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Woodcut on vélin d'Arches paper. Inscription: signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: from the folio, Vingt fables de La fontaine, 1961. Published by Éd...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
$716 Sale Price
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Ancient Roman Statue of a Horse - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 1700s
By Carlo Nolli
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman statue of a horse, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carol Nolli in the 18th ce...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
19th century color lithograph landscape figures horseback house scene trees sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present print is one of several examples produced for Nathaniel Currier by his longtime collaborator Frances F. "Fanny" Palmer. Harry T. Peters wrote of her: "There is no more interesting and appealing character among the group of artists who worked for Currier & Ives than Fanny Palmer. In an age when women, well-bred women in particular, did not generally work for a living Fanny Palmer for years did exacting, full-time work in order to support a large and dependent family ... Her work ... had great charm, homeliness, and a conscientious attention to detail."
One of a series of four prints showing American country life in different seasons, the image presents the viewer with a picturesque view of a successful American farm. In the foreground, a gentleman rides a horse with a young boy before a respectable Italianate country house. Two women and a young girl pick flowers in the garden and several farm workers attend to their duties. Beyond are other homes and a city on the coast.
16.63 x 23.75 inches, artwork
28.13 x 33.38 inches, frame
Entitled bottom center "American Country Life - May Morning"
Signed in the stone, lower left "F.F. Palmer, Del."
Signed in the stone, lower right "Lith. by N. Currier"
Copyrighted lower center "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1855 by N. Currier in the Clerk's office of the Southern District of N.Y."
Inscribed bottom center "New York, Published by N. Currier 152 Nassau Street"
Framed to conservation standards using silk-lined 100 percent rag matting and Museum Glass with a gold gilded liner, all housed in a stained wood moulding.
Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton.
A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America.
Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper.
In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business.
The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’
Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier.
Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published.
The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years.
In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death.
The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day.
Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives.
In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss.
Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife.
Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends.
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.
Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes.
Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier).
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.
Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey.
In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Figurative Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
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