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The little yachtsman - Print, Library of Congress collection
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Print shows a young boy dressed as a sailor, holding a model sailboat, leaning against a mooring bollard at the end of a pier; shows a sailing ship under full sail in the background.
F7417 U.S. Copyright Office.
Publication date based on copyright statement on item.
Copyright stamp with date and number appears on lower left.
Stamped and inscribed in pencil on lower left: Library of Congress Washington. Copyright 1875 No. 7417F.
Includes a sketch of a man, bust portrait, facing front, wearing a hat.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4050
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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