Meadowside Cottage
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
This pastoral scene shows three girls playing on the grass near a two-story cottage with a stone chimney. Two boys open a gate at right to admit cows into a meadow.
The New York firm of Currier & Ives grew from a printing business established by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) in 1835. Expansion led to a partnership with brother-in-law James Merritt Ives (1824–1895) from 1857. 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 at home.
