U.S. Ship of the Line in a Gale
1847
Publisher, American, 1813 - 1888
Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored lithograph on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 20.64 × 32.07 cm (8 1/8 × 12 5/8 in.)
sheet: 31.75 × 42.86 cm (12 1/2 × 16 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.802
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Catalogue Raisonné
Reilly 1984, no. 6847
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
Bibliography
1970
Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 274, no. 6332.
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. 696, 700, no. 6847.
Inscriptions
Text at bottom of stone:
Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by N. Currier, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. / 152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce N.Y. / U.S. Ship of the Line in a Gale. / 557.
Wikidata ID
Q77011758