The Grand Drive – Central Park, New York
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
In this view of New York's Central Park, men, women and children walk along a path in the foreground, with the drive at center, filled with different types of carriages as well ashorseback riders. At right, the roadway ascends a hill. Beyond the drive are lawns, large trees, and the Arsenal.
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.