Central Park, Winter – The Skating Carnival
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
In this snowy view of New York's Central Park, men, women and children skate on the frozen lake with several having fallen in the foreground. The cast-iron Bow Bridge is depicted in the background.
The New York firm of Currier & Ives grew from a printing business established by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) in 1835. Expansion led, in 1857, to a partnership with James Merritt Ives (1824–1895). The firm operated until 1907, lithographing over 4,000 subjects for distribution across America and Europe with popular categories including landscape, marines, natural history, genre, caricatures, portraits, history and foreign views. Until the 1880s, images were printed in monochrome, then hand-colored by women who worked for the company.