U.S. Ship of the Line in a Gale

1847

Nathaniel Currier

Publisher, American, 1813 - 1888

Nathaniel Currier

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

  • 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 Number

    2015.19.802

  • 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

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