Hillside Pastures – Sheep
After Rosa Bonheur French
Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives American
Not on view
Based on a work by the leading animal painter Rosa Bonheur, this print shows sheep with dark and light fleeces in a hilly landscape.
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 brother-in-law 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 at home.
