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New Best Fifty, #23.
Entered According to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Inscribed in ink on lower right corner: 405. Feb 2 1863.
Blind stamp on lower right corner: Deposited in U.S. District Clerks Office for the Southern District of New York.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7326
Exhibited: "Lasting Impressions : The Artists of Currier & Ives" at the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware, September 2016 - January 2017.
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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