"Wooding Up" on the Mississippi

1863

Frances Flora Bond Palmer

Artist, American, born England, 1812 - 1876

Currier and Ives

Printer, 1857 - 1907

Currier and Ives

Publisher, 1857 - 1907

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph with hand-coloring on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Donald and Nancy deLaski Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 45.72 x 70.49 cm (18 x 27 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 53.34 x 76.2 cm (21 x 30 in.)

  • Accession

    2011.30.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reilly 1984, no. 7326

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); purchased 2011 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2016

  • Three Centuries of American Prints: from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery in Prague, Prague 1; Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, 2016 - 2017, no. 32.

Bibliography

1970

  • Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 296, no. 6776.

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. 737, 758, no. 7326.

Markings

lower left in graphite by unknown hand: GIVE

Wikidata ID

Q76557490

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