Clipper Ship "Red Jacket" – In the Ice off Cape Horn, on Her Passage from Australia, to Liverpool, August 1854

Publisher:: Lithographed and published by Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)

Date:: 1855

Medium:: Hand-colored lithograph

Dimensions:: plate: 21 1/4 x 27 9/16 in. (54 x 70 cm) image: 16 1/8 x 23 11/16 in. (41 x 60.1 cm)

Classification:: Prints

Credit Line:: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962

Accession Number:: 63.550.17

Not on view

Signature: in stone, below title: "New York, Published by N. Currier 152 Nassau St."

Inscription: in stone, below image at center: "Entered...1855 by N. Currier...N.Y."

Adele S. Colgate (American, died 1962); Donor: Adele S. Colgate (American, died 1962)

Peters, Currier & Ives 1236; Conningham 1970, 1165; Gale 1283

Harry T. Peters Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People. 2 vols., Garden City, NY, 1931, cat. no. 1236.

Frederick A. Conningham, Colin Simkin Currier & Ives prints; an illustrated check list. Crown Publishers, New York, 1970, cat. no. 1165.

Gale Research Company, Bernard F. Reilly Jr. Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A comprehensive catalogue of the lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merritt Ives and Charles Currier, including ephemera associated with the firm, 1834-1907. 1984, cat. no. 1283.

Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.

"American Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 37, no. 4 (Spring, 1980)
The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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