Across the Continent: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way"
1868
Artist, American, born England, 1812 - 1876
Printer, American, 1824 - 1895
Publisher, 1857 - 1907

Artwork overview
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Medium
hand-colored lithograph, with touches of gum arabic, on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 44.5 x 69 cm (17 1/2 x 27 3/16 in.)
sheet: 52.5 x 74.5 cm (20 11/16 x 29 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1985.64.160
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Catalogue Raisonné
Reilly 1984, no. 39
Artwork history & notes
Bibliography
1970
Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 4, no. 33.
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, p. 3, no. 39.
Inscriptions
Text at bottom on stone:
J.M. Ives, Del. / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year AD.1868, by Currier & Ives in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York / Drawn by F.F. Palmer / Across the Continent. / "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way."
Wikidata ID
Q74070741