Cutter Yacht "Maria" – Modelled by R. E. Stevens, Esq., Owned by the Mssrs. Stevens in New York
Frances Flora Bond Palmer American, born England
After James E. Buttersworth American, born England
Lithographed and published by Nathaniel Currier American
Not on view
In this nautical print, the cutter yacht Maria sails towards the right, observed by figures in a rowboat in the left foreground, with another sailboat behind.
When Frances "Fanny" Flora Bond Palmer moved to New York from England in 1844, she already was an accomplished artist and printmaker. Palmer and her husband Seymour initially operated a small printshop in lower Manhattan. By the time their business closed and they moved to Brooklyn in 1849, Nathaniel Currier was commissioning drawings from Fanny. After Currier & Ives was established in 1857, Palmer was hired as a staff artist and became one of the leading women lithographers of the nineteenth century.
