Going to the Mill
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
In this print, a youth sits on the back of a white horse, with bags of grain slung across his saddle. He looks down at black and white dog at right and moves towards a mill shown next to a stream at left, with additional houses in the center distance.
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.
