Clipper Ship "Young America"
Lithographer 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 three-masted clipper ship, under full sail, heads to the left. Its center mast is topped with a flag sporting the letter "D." Another clipper ship is on the horizon in left background travels towards right (thereby about to pass "Young America"). Data about the ship's dimensions, etc. is imprinted in lower left and lower right margin (flanking the imprinted title).
The New York firm of Currier & Ives (established by Nathaniel Currier, who later formed a partnership with his brother's brother-in-law James Merritt Ives in 1857), lithographed 4,300 subjects between 1835 and 1907 for distribution across America and Europe. The firm produced landscapes, genre subjects, caricatures, portraits, historical scenes, foreign views and reproductions of art works. One popular sub-category concerned ships. The pictures were drawn on lithographic stones, printed in monochrome, then generally hand-colored by others (often women who worked for the firm at home).
