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The Yacht "Dauntless" of New York

1869
Not on view
In this nautical print a two-masted vessel sails to the right, listing slightly to starboard. She flies the burgee of the New York Yacht Club on her foremast, with another burgee and an American flag from the other mast. The water is choppy and land visible through a light fog in the background.

The New York firm of Currier & Ives (established by Nathaniel Currier, who formed a partnership with James Merritt Ives in 1857), made more than 7,000 lithographs 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. One popular sub-category concerned sailboats and racing. 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: The Yacht "Dauntless" of New York
  • Artist: Charles Richard Parsons (American, Brooklyn, New York 1844–1918 St. Ives, Cornwall)
  • Artist: Lyman Wetmore Atwater (American, Burlington, Vermont 1835–1891 Brooklyn, New York)
  • Lithographer: Parsons & Atwater (American, active from 1863)
  • Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
  • Date: 1869
  • Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
  • Dimensions: Image: 19 1/4 in. × 28 in. (48.9 × 71.1 cm)
    Image with text: 21 1/4 in. × 28 in. (54 × 71.1 cm)
    Sheet: 23 1/4 × 30 1/4 in. (59.1 × 76.8 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951
  • Object Number: 51.567.10
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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