The Gipsies Camp
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
Men and women gather around a camp fire at sunset, with a tent ptiched at left under large trees, and a donkey standing at center being fed by two children. Water is shown in the foreground, and a ruined church at 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 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.
