Nazareth of Gallilee

Publisher Currier & Ives American
1868–78
Not on view
This landscape in the Holy Land includes palm trees in the left foreground and the town of Nazareth at the foot of distant hills.

The New York firm of Currier & Ives (established by Nathaniel Currier, who formed a partnership with his brother-in-law James Merritt Ives in 1857), lithographed 4,300 subjects between 1835 and 1907 for distribution across America and Europe. They offered images of almost everything animal, vegetable, or mineral in the United States, and issued landscapes, genre subjects, caricatures, portraits, historical scenes, foreign views and reproductions of art works. The pictures were drawn on lithographic stones, printed in monochrome, then generally hand-colored by women who worked for the firm at home.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Nazareth of Gallilee
  • Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
  • Date: 1868–78
  • Medium: Hand-colored lithograph with gum
  • Dimensions: Image: 8 7/16 × 12 1/2 in. (21.5 × 31.8 cm)
    Sheet: 13 7/16 × 17 9/16 in. (34.2 × 44.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.66.1836
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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