Mayflower Saluted by the Fleet – Crossing the Bow of "Galatea" in their First Race for the "America's Cup" over the inside course New York Bay, September 7th, 1886 [Won by Mayflower]
After a painting by Franklyn Bassford American
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
In this nautical print Mayflower sails to the right at the head of a line of yachts extending into the left background, with a steamship visible in the right distance.
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.
