1860s Prints and Multiples

Landscape is an original lithograph on paper, realized by E.Laport in about 1860. The state of preservation is good except for some diffused stains. Hand-colored. Plate no.7. Sh...

Landscape is an original lithograph on paper, realized by E. Laport around 1860. The state of preservation is good except for some diffused stains. Hand-colored. Plate no.12 She...

Image dimensions: 25.5 x 28.5 cm. Composition with Nudes is an original modern artwork realized by a French artist in 1862. Original B/W etching on ivory paper. The work is sigled...

L'Enfant Aux Cerises is an original print in etching technique on ivory paper, realized after Edouard Manet (French Painter; 1832-1883) and by Henri Berengier, engraver and sculptor....

The House is an original lithograph on paper, realized by E.Laport in about 1860. The state of preservation is good except for some diffused stains. Hand-colored. Plate no.3. Sh...

Image dimensions: 15.5x22.5 cm. Defense of the Cemetery in Magenta is a beautiful artwork realized by Carlo Perrin in 1860. Hand colored litograph, published in Turin by Carlo Perr...

Image dimensions: 11.5 x 21.5 cm. Charges du Jour is an original color lithograph, realized in 1860 by Honoré Daumier (1808-1879). This was the cover of the print suit "Album des C...

Gate Of The Metwáleys - Cairo is a beautiful original black and white etching engraved by Ebenezer Challis in 1860 ca. after an illustration that David Roberts realized for 'The Art ...

Faust et Marguerite au jardin is a wonderful original lithograph by Eugène Louis Pirodon (1824-1908), d'après James Tissot. A very touching and romantic scene in which two lovers are in Renaissance costume...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in London in 1868 for the rare first volume of P. G. Hamerton's "Etching and Etchers". Image size: 3 1/2 x 5 inche...

Medium: original etching. This impression on laid paper was printed in London in 1868 for the rare first volume of P. G. Hamerton's "Etching and Etchers". Image size: 4 1/2 x 7 1/2 i...

Holiday in Camp -- Soldiers Playing "Foot-Ball" Wood engraving, 1865 After Winslow Homer Unsigned (Signed in text in title caption, see photo) Published in Harper's Weekly July 15, 1...

(Sorry for the reflections on the glass in the photos.) A little boy runaway has returned home, hat in hand, to the relief of his poor beleaguered mother (burdened with four other children, apparently) and the upbraiding of his grandmother. So many fabulous details in this 19th-century etching, in addition to its amazing engraving work (every bit of it originally incised on a metal plate!). Placard on back says "Published exclusively for members of the Crosby Opera House Art...

"Deer Shooting in the Northern Woods" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a landscape with a hunter aiming his gun at a deer on a winter day. 10" x 14" art 19 1/2" x 23 1/4" frame 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. In 1907, faced with competitive pressures from advancements in offset printing and photo engraving, Chauncey closed the venerable lithography business and sold the printing equipment and lithographic stones to his shop foreman, Daniel W. Logan. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives are laid to rest along with their families at the Greenwood Cemetery...

UNION POND, WILLIAMSBURGH, L. I. [sic] is a lithograph printed in color in circa 1862. It was published by Thomas & Eno, 37 Park Row, N.Y. The printed image size is 16 3/4 x 27 in...

"The Farmers in boat with vegetables"  is an Artwork realized in 1860. Etching on ivory old paper. The state of preservation of the artwork is good except some stains and imperfect...

James Whistler (1834-1903), Penny Passengers, Limehouse, 1860. Etching and drypoint, signed in pencil with a butterfly and inscribed imp, printed in black ink on laid paper, trimmed at the platemark, leaving a signature tab, an impression in the second (final) state, one of only six recorded, 31/4 x 81/8 inches (8.2 x 20.7 cm) A fine impression of this great rarity. Provenance: Otto Gerstenberg, stamp verso [Lugt 2785] Reference: Kennedy 67; Glasgow 71 The buildings on the far bank of the Thames and the ship and their masts moored there show the distinctive draughtsmanship of the period 1859–1860 when Whistler worked in Limehouse and made an etching there which was published in the Thames Set. Penny Passengers, Limehouse is very rare, with only five impressions known, all but our impression in public collections. It shows in outline a group of passengers waiting for the ferry...

Nouvelle Conciergerie is a black and white etching realized by Pierre-Lucien Faure-Dujarric in 1863. Titled in the lower. Image size: 17.5cmx12.5cm. Good condition. Signed and da...

Plants of the Greenhouse is a black and white etching realized by Jules Jacquemart (1837-1880) in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 25.5cmx35cm. Good condition. Realized by...

Lithograph realized by Auguste Raffet in 1860. Belongs to the series "Souvenir d'Italie - Expédition de Rome". Good condition,

Jan Pieter Veth (1864 - 1925) was a Dutch portrait painter and academic. During the first two decades of the twentieth century, Veth was one of the most popular portrait painters in...

Etude is a black and White etching realized by Jules-Joseph Lecurieux in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 23x31. Very good impression with wide margins and a very fres...

Apres la Bataille is a black and White etching realized by Hermann Maurice Cossmann in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 30x23. Very good impression with wide margins a...

Durham is a black and White etching realized by William Ridley (1764-1838), and printed in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 13x21. Very good impression with wide margi...

Passage Secret du Vatican is a black and White etching realized by Pierre-Lucien Faure-Dujarric in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 31x23. Very good impression with wi...

Baie de Kerloche is a black and White etching realized by Auguste Feyen Perrin in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 23x32. Very good impression with wide margins and a ...

L'Affut is a black and White etching realized by A. de Balleroy in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 27 x 22. Very good impression with wide margins and a very fresh in...

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...

La Lecon de Solfege is a black and White etching realized by Zacharie Noterman in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 32x23. Very good impression with wide margins and a ...

Maison de Guttemberg a Mayence is a black and White etching realized by Pierre Tetar van Elven in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 32x23. Very good impression with wid...

Moulin Hollandais is a black and White etching realized by Alphonse Aufray De Roc'Bihan in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 15x23. Very good impression with wide margi...

Vue de Varennes en Argonne is a black and White etching realized by Alphonse Beaujoint in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 23x31. Very good impression with wide margin...

Villeneuve la Carenne is a black and White etching realized by Alfred Taiée in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 10x28. Very good impression with wide margins and a ver...

Entree d'Okelle is a black and White etching realized by E. Dufeu in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 32x23. Very good impression with wide margins and a very fresh in...

Canards et Poules is a black and White etching realized by Francisco Gimenez in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 32x13. Very good impression with wide margins and a ve...

Truands de Campagne is a black and White etching realized by Jules Laurens in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 31x23. Very good impression with wide margins and a very...

A Cadart & Luquet is a black and White etching realized by Ferdinand Roybet in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 34x24. Very good impression with wide margins and a ver...

La Lettre is a black and White etching realized by Smits in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 31x23. Very good impression with wide margins and a very fresh inking. Re...

Chevaliers et Sorcieres is a black and White etching realized by Charles Amédée De Boret in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 31x23. Very good impression with wide marg...

Juifs Polonais is a black and White etching realized by August von Heyden in 1863.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 23x32 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société des Aqua...

Souvenirs de Voyage is a black and White etching realized by Jules-Fernand Jacquemart in 1862.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 24x34 Very good impression. Realized by Cadart for...

La Curee d'Un Lapin is a black and White etching realized by Albert de Balleroy in the 1862.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 24x34 Very good impression. Realized by Cadart for t...

Ruines du Chateau de Tancarville is a black and White etching realized by Alfred-Luois Burnet Debaines in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower. Image size: 31x22. Very good impression ...

Bords de l'Oudon is a black and White etching realized by Tancrède Abraham in 1863.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 22x36 Very good impression. Realized by Cadart for the "Socié...

L'Ecurueil et la Mouche? is a black and White etching realized by Jules-Fernand Jacquemartin the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 24x32 Very good impression. Realized for ...

Les Lapins Venges is a black and White etching realized in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 32x23 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Bo...

Les Plaideurs is a black and White etching realized by Zacharie Noterman in the 1860s  Titled in the lower Image Size: 32x23 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société des A...

Episode des Premieres Guerres is a black and White etching realized by Auguste Feyen Perrin in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 23x32 Very good impression. Realized fo...

Dolmen de Locmariaker is a black and White etching realized by Leon Gaucherel in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 25x32 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société...

Le Debuche is a black and White etching realized by Albert de Balleroy in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 23x32 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société des Aq...

Moutons en Plaine is a black and White etching realized by Ferdinand Chaigneau in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 32x23 Very good impression. Realized for the "Sociét...

Sous les Murs de Teheran is a black and White etching realized by Jules Laurens in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 23x32 Very good impression. Realized for the "Socié...

Le Berger et la Mer is a black and White etching realized by Albert Brendel in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size:  29x20 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société ...

Souvenir de Normandie is a black and White etching realized by Otto Weber in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 23x30 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société des...

Philippe BENOIST Paris : Les Invalides Under the Snow - 1861 Original two tones stone lithographs Printed name of the artist bottom right On vellum 33.5...

Seymour Haden (1818-1910), Shere Mill Pond II (Large Plate), etching and drypoint, 1860, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate lower right]. Schneiderman 37, sixth state (of 9). In generally good condition (see note below) with margins, on a cream/ivory laid paper, 7 x 13 1/2, the sheet 8 1/8 x 13 3/4 inches. A very good impression, with rich burr especially in the reeds toward the right. Provenance: Frederick Keppel and Co., New York, NY. Illustrated: Guichard, British...

Uses and Customs - Julia Basilica and Tabularium is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " H...

Uses and Customs - Porta Palatino in Turin 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...

Uses and Customs - Arch of Augustus 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...

Uses and Customs - Entrance to the Elephant Cave is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " H...