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4 - “Currier & Ives” After Charles Parsons. Original hand-colore…

Estimate €1,500 - €3,000
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“Currier & Ives” After Charles Parsons. Original hand-colored lithograph. 1855. “High Pressure Steamboat Mayflower. First Class Packet between St. Louis and New Orleans on the Mississippi River. Cap[t], Joseph Brown” Printer: Nathaniel Currier. New York. 1855. Artist: Autor Charles Parsons (1821-1910) Comes with its original period mahogany frame. 62 x 78 cm. A copy of this lithograph, dating from the same year as the one we are presenting here—1885—is part of the collection of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas (Accession No.: 1970.200) (https://www.cartermuseum.org/collection/high-pressure-steamboat-mayflower-first-class-packet-between-st-louis-and-new-orleans) As seen on the website of the American Historical Print Collectors Society (https://ahpcs.org) some lithographs (as in our case) include a copyright notice printed below the image: “Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855 by N. Currier, in the Clerk’s office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y.” They also note that some examples had the text printed, including a New York City address, which provides a date range based on when the company occupied a specific building: This is, in fact, our case, as the address 152 Nassau Street is printed, which places our lithograph specifically in the period from 1838 to 1856, during which Nathaniel Currier was the sole printer. A year later, in 1857, he partnered with James Ives and changed the company’s name to Currier & Ives. Though the name of the firm changed over time, all prints produced by this firm, even before 1857, are often referred to as “Currier & Ives prints.” The business had its beginnings in two predecessor firms involving Nathaniel Currier: first as Stodart & Currier (1834) and then as N. Currier (1835 to 1856). Currier was a printmaker and businessman; James Ives started as the firm’s bookkeeper in 1852 and five years later became Currier’s partner. Neither was an artist, so though all Currier & Ives prints were published by the partners, they were drawn and lithographed by other persons. Nathaniel Currier retired in 1880 and died in 1888 and James Ives died in 1895. The firm, under the direction of their sons Edward West Currier and Chauncey Ives, carried on until 1907. - https://ahpcs.org/ - Frederic A. Conningham, Currier & Ives Prints. An Illustrated Check List (New York: Crown Publishers, 1949, rev. ed. 1970)
About the sale Dialogues with the Past: Vestigia
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Auction time 07/02/2026 at 7:00 PM
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