Among the Hills – View on the Ausable River
Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives American
Not on view
In this landscape, cows wade in a placid river with a mill and house beyond, and high distant hills. The Ausable River runs from the Adirondacks in upstate New York, past the village of Lake Placid, then empties into Lake Champlain.
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.
