The Yacht "Sappho" of New York leaving Sandy Hook, July 28th, 1869, bound to Europe
Not on view
In this nautical print, the two-masted yacht Sappho sails to the left. Crew members work on deck, and land is visible in the background.
The New York firm of Currier & Ives (established by Nathaniel Currier, who formed a partnership with James Merritt Ives in 1857), made more than 7,000 lithographs between 1835 and 1907 for distribution across America and Europe. They issued landscapes, genre subjects, caricatures, portraits, historical scenes, foreign views and reproductions of art works. One popular sub-category concerned sailboats and racing. The pictures were drawn on lithographic stones, printed in monochrome, then generally hand-colored by women who worked for the firm.
