19th Century Colored Currier Lithograph "Death of Washington: Dec. 14, 1799"
Nathaniel Currier19th Century Colored Currier Lithograph "Death of Washington: Dec. 14, 1799"1846
1846
About the Item
- Creator:Nathaniel Currier (1813 - 1888, American)
- Creation Year:1846
- Dimensions:Height: 14.13 in (35.9 cm)Width: 18.88 in (47.96 cm)Depth: 0.88 in (2.24 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Alamo, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: #2751stDibs: LU117325461741
Nathaniel Currier
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 27, 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 15, 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 before 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.
In 1833, now 20-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 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, 22-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, and continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and anything 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. 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.
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