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Washington's dream - Print, Library of Congress collection

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Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image).

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7070

New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.

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01/01/1857
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Currier & Ives.
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Currier and Ives

19th Century New York firm that produced prints from paintings by fine artists.
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