The New York Light Guard's Quick Step: As Performed by Dodworth's Brass Band. Composed and Respectfully Dedicated to the Officers and Members of the Light Guard; by Francis H. Brown, 1839

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Medium

lithograph in black on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 27.94 × 24.13 cm (11 × 9 1/2 in.)

sheet: 33.97 × 24.77 cm (13 3/8 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams

Catalogue Raisonné

Reilly 1984, no. 4834

Accession Number

2008.115.1362

Artists / Makers

Nathaniel Currier (artist) American, 1813 - 1888

Hewitt & Jaques (publisher) American, 1837 - 1841

Image Use

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Inscription

upper center verso in graphite by unknown hand: about 1855; lower left verso in graphite by unknown hand: 8F

Text at bottom of stone:
The New York Light Guard's / Entered According to Act of Congress A.D. 1839 by James L. Hewitt in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. / Quick Step / As Performed by Dodsworth's Brass Band / composed and respectfully dedicated to / the Officers and Members / of the / Light Guard; / by / Francis H. Brown / New York / Pr. 25 cts. Nett.

Text on verso:
New York Light Guards, / Quick Step. / Arranged by / F.H. Brown. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1839 by Hewitt & Jaques in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York.

Provenance

William P. Carl; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Williams, Dave H. and Reba W.

Bibliography

1970: Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 193, no. 4447.

1984: Reilly, Bernard F., Jr. Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A Comprehensive Catalogue of the Lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merrit Ives and Charles Currier, including Ephemera Associated with the Firm, 1834-1907, volume 2. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1984, pp. 485, 493, no. 4834.