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Rye and rock Thomas Worth - Engraving, Public domain image
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Print shows an African American man, bundled in clothing for winter, sitting atop a column of rock on the coastline of the ocean, holding a fishing pole; he is buffeted by strong winds as he drinks from a bottle labeled "Rye".
P4547 U.S. Copyright Office.
Signed on stone on lower right.
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Copyright stamp, date, and number appear on lower left.
Stamped and inscribed in pencil on lower left: Library of Congress City of Washington. Copyright Mar 5 1884 No. 4547P.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5709
Forms part of: Popular graphic art print filing series (Library of Congress).
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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