Loss of the Steamboat Swallow: While on Her Trip, from Albany to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845
1845
Nathaniel Currier
Publisher, American, 1813 - 1888
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund, 1953)
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Dimensions
image: 20.46 × 32.07 cm (8 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
sheet: 31.43 × 42.39 cm (12 3/8 × 16 11/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2015.19.803
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Catalogue Raisonné
Reilly 1984, no. 4098.
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1977
American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977
1981
Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981
Bibliography
1970
Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 168, no. 3779.
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. 397, 422, no. 4098.
Inscriptions
Text at bottom of stone:
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1845, by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern Dist. of New York. / Loss of the Steamboat / Swallow / While on Her Trip, from Albany / to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845. / When opposite Athens she struck a large rock, took fire, / broke in two and sunk. By which melancholy occurence, it is supposed that nearly 40 lives were lost. / Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St. N.Y. / 105.
Wikidata ID
Q77008561