Cottage Life – Spring
The print, lettered with the names of both Nathaniel Currier and Currier & Ives, was published the year that the latter partnership was formed. It represents a country scene, with a carriage, horses and attendants waiting outside a large villa, as a family of five approaches on foot from the right.
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, made more than 7,000 lithographs 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 at home.
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, made more than 7,000 lithographs 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 at home.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cottage Life – Spring
- Lithographer: Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
- Publisher: Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)
- Date: 1856
- Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
- Dimensions: Image: 10 1/2 x 15 in. (26.7 x 38.1 cm)
Image with text: 11 1/4 x 15 in. (28.6 x 38.1 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951
- Object Number: 51.567.25
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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