The Village Street
A dirt road passes through a village with a church steeple in the background. At right, a woman and child stand in the porched entrance of a house watching a man pulls up in a wagon. A man and a boy relax under a vined canopy next to the house, and in the left foreground, two children on a small wooden dock feed ducks swimming in the pond.
When Frances "Fanny" Flora Bond Palmer moved to New York from England in 1844 she was thirty-two and an accomplished artist and printmaker. Initially, Fanny and her husband Seymour operated a small print-shop in lower Manhattan, similar to one they had run in Leicester (United Kingdom). In 1849, the couple moved to Brooklyn after the business closed. Nathaniel Currier recognized Palmer’s talent and began to buy her drawings to use as print designs. She would later work as a staff artist for Currier & Ives and is considered one of the leading women lithographers of the period.
When Frances "Fanny" Flora Bond Palmer moved to New York from England in 1844 she was thirty-two and an accomplished artist and printmaker. Initially, Fanny and her husband Seymour operated a small print-shop in lower Manhattan, similar to one they had run in Leicester (United Kingdom). In 1849, the couple moved to Brooklyn after the business closed. Nathaniel Currier recognized Palmer’s talent and began to buy her drawings to use as print designs. She would later work as a staff artist for Currier & Ives and is considered one of the leading women lithographers of the period.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Village Street
- Artist: Frances Flora Bond Palmer (American (born England), Leicester 1812–1876 New York)
- Publisher: Lithographed and published by Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)
- Date: 1855
- Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
- Dimensions: Image: 10 3/8 x 14 7/8 in. (26.4 x 37.8 cm)
Image with text: 11 x 14 7/8 in. (27.9 x 37.8 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951
- Object Number: 51.567.49
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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Multiple artists/makers
1866
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Nathaniel Currier
1849–56
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Nathaniel Currier
1849–56
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Nathaniel Currier
1849
Frances Flora Bond Palmer
Nathaniel Currier
1849–56
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