A Midnight Race on the Mississippi

1860

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: 46.04 x 71.12 cm (18 1/8 x 28 in.)
    sheet: 55.88 x 81.28 cm (22 x 32 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.16.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Reilly 1984, no. 4476

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); purchased 2012 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. 31.

Bibliography

1970

  • Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 180, no. 4116.

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 1. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1984, pp. 437, 458, no. 4476.

Inscriptions

Text at bottom on stone:
F.F. Palmer Del. From a Sketch by H.D. Manning of the Natchez / Entered According to Act of Congress in the Year 1860, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of N.Y. / A Midnight Race on the Mississippi. / New York, Published by Currier & Ives 157 Nassau St.

Wikidata ID

Q76560713

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