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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: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued
Notes: From the album, The Circus by Toulouse...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
City Park, Winter
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
City Park, Winter
Lithograph, c. 1947
Signed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Published by Associated American Artists
Printed by George C. Miller, New York
Edition: c. 250
In the Bohrod papers at Syracuse University, the artist states that it is a view of Pittsburgh. It depicts the George Washington Monument in Allegheny Commons Park, dedicated in 1891. The sculptor f the monument is Edward Ludwig Albert Pausch (1856-1931).
Condition: Excellent
Image size: 9 1/4 x 13 7/16 inches
Frame size: 19 x 23 inches
Provenance: Estate of Adolf Dehn
Reference: AAA Index No. 848
Aaron Bohrod (21 November 1907 – 3 April 1992) was an American artist best known for his trompe-l'œil still-life paintings.
Education
Bohrod was born in Chicago in 1907, the son of an emigree Bessarabian-Jewish grocer. Bohrod studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Art Students League of New York between 1926 and 1930. While at the Art Students League, Bohrod was influenced by John Sloan and chose themes that involved his own surroundings.
Career
He returned to Chicago in 1930 where he painted views of the city and its working class. He eventually earned Guggenheim Fellowships which permitted him to travel throughout the country, painting and recording the American scene. His early work won him widespread praise as an important social realist and regional painter and printmaker and his work was marketed through Associated American Artists in New York. Bohrod completed three commissioned murals for the Treasury Departments Section of Fine Arts in Illinois; Vandalia in 1935, Galesburg in 1938 and Clinton in 1939. During World War II, Bohrod worked as an artist; first in the Pacific for the United States Army Corps of Engineers' Army War Art Unit...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Ostend Horse
Located in Storrs, CT
Ostend Horse. 1926-27. Drypoint. Appleby 125. 7 x 815/16 (sheet 9 1/8x 12 1/5). Proof B, apart from the edition 100. A rich impression with tonal wiping and drypoint burr, printed on...
Category
1920s Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Mexican on a donkey, Mexico, Mortimer Menpes etching with drypoint, 1914
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Signed in pencil below the image. Signed and dated in the plate. The number '327' inscribed in pencil in lower margin.
Mortimer Menpes was an artist and engraver, author, printmake...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Beaufort Hunt Above the Sodbury Vale hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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Lionel Edwards (1878 - 1966)
The Beaufort...
Category
1920s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Summer Gold, American Modern Lithograph by Millard Sheets
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Millard Owen Sheets, American (1907 - 1989)
Title: Summer Gold
Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250, 5 HC
Image S...
Category
1970s American Modern Animal Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Palace of the Caesars, Palatine Hill, Rome, Italy. Late C19th tinted lithograph
By Felix Benoist
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Veduta Generale del Palazzo de Cesari sul Palatino, presa del Monte Aventino'
Tinted lithograph by Eugene Ciceri after Felix Benoist. Figures by Bayot. From a French series titled...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Switzerland horses by Hugo Wetli original vintage poster Swiss Jura Alps
By Hugo Wetli
Located in London, GB
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Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Les Etrennes du Bebe - Etching by Armand Queyroy - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Les Etrennes du Bebe is a black and White etching realized by Armand Queyroy in the 1860s.
Titled in the lower.
Image size:21x28.
Very good impression with wide margins and a ve...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Village de Tremereuc - Etching by Michel-Amédée Besnus - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
Village de Tremereuc is a black and White etching realized by Michel-Amédée Besnus in the 1860s.
Titled in the lower.
Image size: 23x32.
Very good impression with wide margins an...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Adrian Collaert Martin de Vos 17th Century Engraving Flight into Egypt print
Located in London, GB
We have the full series of 52 prints (including title page) from Vita Passio et Resurrectio Iesu Christi listed. To find the others scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below i...
Category
17th Century Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Hertfordshire Hunt fox hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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Category
1920s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Rue de Castiglione, Folk Art Lithograph by Claude Tabet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Tabet, French (1924 - 1979) - Rue de Castiglione. Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, EA, Size: 22 x 30 in. (55.88 x 76.2 cm), Description: Either...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
F A Stewart The Heythrop Hunt at Stow on the Wold hunting print
Located in London, GB
Frank Algernon Stewart (1877-1945)
The Heythrop at Stow on the Wold
Lithograph
24x63cm
Signed in pencil
A typical hunting print by Stewart, showing o...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Policeman - Original Lithograph By Jules Renard - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Policeman is an original lithograph realized by Jules Renard in the 19th Century.
It is part of the collection "Soldiers of the Republic".
Hand-signed.
Good condition.
Draner, ac...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
La Montée - Etching by Christian Johannes Nieuwenhuys - 1870s
Located in Roma, IT
La Montée is an artwork realized by Christian Johannes Nieuwenhuys in the 1870s.
Etching.
Good conditions.
Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of...
Category
1870s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Battle of Pozzolo - Lithograph after Louis Martinet - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
Pozzolo Battle is a lithograph print on paper realized After Louis Martinet in the 1850s.
Titled, signed on the plate.
The artwork is in good conditions with aged margins and diffu...
Category
1850s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Before the Trotting Race - Original Lithograph Handsigned Numbered
By Yves Brayer
Located in Paris, IDF
Yves Brayer (1907-1990)
Before the Trotting Race
Original lithograph, c.1973
Handsigned in pencil by the artist
Numbered /250 copies
Size 50 x 65 cm, on Arches Vellum
Information: ...
Category
1970s Landscape Prints
Materials
Vellum, Lithograph
Lonesome Train Whistle, American Western Art Lithograph by Duane Bryers
By Duane Bryers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Duane Bryers, American (1911 - 2012) - Lonesome Train Whistle, Year: Circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP, Image Size: 17 x 22 in., Siz...
Category
1970s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Landscape - Etching by J. F. Raffaelli - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Etching and drypoint. Hand signed.
Very good condition.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Winter - Eight Scenic Spots in Suburban Edo
Located in Roma, IT
Winter - Eight Scenic Spots in Suburban Edo is a modern artwork realized in the Mid-20th Century.
Mixed colored lithograph after a woodcut realized by the great Japanese artist Uta...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Uses and Customs - Paladins and Knights - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Paladins and Knights is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Uses and Customs - Sempione Arch called of Peace in Milan - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Sempione Arch called of Peace in Milan is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the univ...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cheval Blanc - Etching by Paul Emile Colin - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Le Cheval Blanc is an artwok realized in early-20th century, by the French Artist Paul Emile Colin .
Black and white etching on paper. Hand Signed on the right corner. Limited editi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Tree Lined Path, Folk Art Lithograph by Claude Tabet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Claude Tabet, French (1924 - 1979) - Tree Lined Path. Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 250, Image Size: 20 x 24.5 inches, Size: 22 in. x ...
Category
1970s Folk Art Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
India. Jodpoor - Original Vintage Photo - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
India. Jodpoor - Mach 2nd, 1893 - is an original vintage black and white photo realized during a journey throughout the world performed by prince Franz Ferdinand von Osterreich Este ...
Category
1890s Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
A Fierce Battle at Seoul by Kokunimasa (Ryukel ) woodblock tryptich 1904
By Utagawa Kokunimasa
Located in Paonia, CO
A Fierce Battle at Seoul by Kokunimasa ( also known as Ryukel ) is a woodblock tryptich from 1904 in good condition. Utagawa Kokunimasa (1874-1944) was a woodblock artist fro...
Category
Early 1900s Other Art Style Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
The Quorn Hunt, Holy Vale hunting print by Lionel Edwards
Located in London, GB
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Lionel Edwards (1878 - 1966)
The Quorn Hu...
Category
1930s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Shepherd With Cattle On A Wooden Bridge by Antonie Waterloo - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Shepherd With Cattle On A Wooden Bridge is an etching on ivory-colored paper realized by Antonie Waterloo in the late 17th century.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
The artwork ...
Category
17th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
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
The Old Pier at Littlehampton - Lithograph on Paper by J. Cousen - Mid-1800
By John Cousen
Located in Roma, IT
The Old Pier at Littlehampton is an original modern artwork realized by John Cousen in the middle of the XIX Century.
Original colored print on paper. Inscripted on the lower margi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Castel - Original Lithograph on Paper by F. Gonin - 1880
By Francesco Gonin
Located in Roma, IT
"Castel" is an original lithograph on paper, realized by Francesco Gonin in 1880.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents a magnificent castel, through harmonious hatchings by delica...
Category
1880s Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Spahis - Original Lithograph By Jules Renard - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Spahis is an original lithograph realized by Jules Renard in 19th Century.
It is part of the collection "Soldiers of the Republic".
Hand-signed.
Good condition.
Draner, actually ...
Category
19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Innspruck - Original Lithograph - Early-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Innspruck is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of the 19th Century.
Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper.
Inscripted on the lower margin in Capital Letters:...
Category
Early 19th Century Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Horse in the Roman Countryside - Original Etching by Charles Coleman - 1992
Located in Roma, IT
Horse in the Roman Countryside is an original artwork realized after Charles Coleman (1807, Yorkshire - 1874, Roma) in 1992.
Good condition.
Not signed.
1992 edition in 25 copies....
Category
1990s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Map of Kampen, Netherlands - by G. Braun and F. Hogenberg - Late 16th Century
Located in Roma, IT
This map of Kampen (the ancient Campensis) is an original etching realized by George Braun and Franz Hogenberg as part of the famous Series "Civitates Orbis Terrarum".
The “Civita...
Category
16th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Roman Landscape - Original Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Landscape is an original etching artwork realized by the Italian artist Giuseppe Malandrino.
hand-signed by the artist on the lower right in pencil.
Numbered in Roman numeral...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
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
University College, Oxford David Loggan 1675 engraving
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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David Loggan (1634 - 1692)
University College, Oxford (1675)
Engraving
29 x 40 cm
Loggan's view of Univ from the 'Oxonia Illustrata'.
Loggan was born to English and Scottish parents, and was baptised in Danzig in 1634. After studying engraving in Danzig with Willem Hondius (1598-1652 or 1658), he moved to London in the late 1650s, going on to produce the engraved title-page for the folio 1662 Book of Common Prayer. He married in 1663 and moved to Nuffield in Oxfordshire in 1665. Loggan was appointed Public Sculptor to the nearby University of Oxford in the late 1660s, having been commissioned to produce bird’s-eye views of all the Oxford colleges. He lived in Holywell Street as he did this. The 'Oxonia Illustrata' was published in 1675, with the help of Robert White (1645-1704). Following its completion, Loggan began work on his equivalent work for Cambridge; the 'Cantabrigia Illustrata' was finally published in 1690, when he was made engraver to Cambridge University.
The 'Oxonia Illustrata' also includes an engraving of Winchester College...
Category
1670s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
(after) John Constable mezzotint "Autumnal Sun Set"
By David Lucas
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: mezzotint (engraved by David Lucas after the John Constable painting). Printed in 1855 on cream wove paper for the "English Landscape S...
Category
1850s Landscape Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
David Loggan St Edmund Hall Oxford - Aula St Edmundi - 1675 engraving
By David Loggan
Located in London, GB
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David Loggan (1634-1692)
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1670s Realist Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
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
The Hunt, Surrealist Lithograph by Susan Hall
By Susan Hall
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Hunt
Susan Hall, American (1943)
Date: 1980
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 175
Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)
Category
1980s Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Roman Forum - Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Forum is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Malandrino.
Print in etching technique and hand watercolored.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner.
Numbere...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Calvados, France. Antique map of a French department, 1856
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Dept. du Calvados', steel engraving with original outline hand-colouring., 1856, from Levasseur's 'Atlas National Illustre'.
This area of France is known for its production of Cal...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Street, Chelsea - 1880s etching by Whistler follower Theodore Roussel
Located in London, GB
THEODORE CASIMIR ROUSSEL, RBA
(1847-1926)
The Street, Chelsea Embankment
Etching, signed in the plate, signed on the artist’s tab, trimmed to the platemark by the artist, framed
15...
Category
1880s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Vue du Capitole - Offset After G. Engelmann - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Vue du Capitole is a print realized after Godefroy Engelmann in the 1970s.
Signed on the plate
Offset on paper
Good condition with slight foxing.
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Offset
Chisholm Trail Mural, Screenprint by Richard Haas
By Richard Haas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Haas
Title: Chisholm Trail Mural
Year: 1985
Medium: Silkscreen, Signed in pencil
Edition: Exhibition Proof
Paper Size: 29.5 x 40.75 in....
Category
1980s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Screen
Joy, Katie Edwards, Limited Edition Print, Happy Art, Street Art, Bright Prints
Located in Deddington, GB
Katie Edwards -Created in 2014 for a competition on the theme of Joy, which the concept of escaping on a carousel horse conveyed perfectly. This illustration was the winner of the 20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Prints
Materials
Screen, Paper
Joanna Padfield, One Winter’s Day, Limited Edition, Affordable Art, Art Online
Located in Deddington, GB
Joanna Padfield
One Winter’s Day
Limited Edition print on paper
Edition of 50
Image Size: H 30cm x W 40
Paper Size: H 38cm x W 53 cm
Sold Unframed
(Please note that in situ images ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Linocut
Propylaea - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Propylaea is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the government, of the laws, ...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Uses and Customs - Temple of S Maria - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Temple of S Maria is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of th...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Uses and Customs - Soldiers - Lithograph - 1862
Located in Roma, IT
Uses and Customs - Soldiers is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862.
The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the governm...
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A View on the Highgate Road and The Birmingham Tally Ho Coach
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
James Pollard 1892-1867, was an English painter, watercolourist and engraver whose artistic talents were the depiction of coaching, hunting, fishing and horse racing scenes. He is fa...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Printer's Ink, Watercolor
Yarmouth - Engraving by Edward Frencis Finden - 1845
Located in Roma, IT
Yarmouth is an etching realized in the Early-20th Century by E. Finden.
Signed in plate.
The artwork is realized in a well-balanced composition.
Category
1840s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
Roman Forum - Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Forum is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Malandrino.
Print in etching technique and hand watercolored.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner.
Numbere...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Roman Forum - Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Forum is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Malandrino.
Print in etching technique and hand watercolored.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner.
Numbere...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Roman Forum - Etching by Giuseppe Malandrino - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Forum is an artwork realized by Giuseppe Malandrino.
Print in etching technique and hand watercolored.
Hand-signed by the artist in pencil on the lower right corner.
Numbere...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching