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Sloop Yacht "Pocahontas" of New York

Publisher Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives American
1881
Not on view
In this nautical print, a single-masted yacht rigged with four sails moves through white-capped waves to the right; three other sailboats are seen in the background.

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 James Merritt Ives (1824–1895). The firm operated until 1907, producing over 7,000 lithographs for distribution across America and Europe with popular subject 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. Here, tint stones are used to create tones, an intermediate step towards the firm's use of color lithography.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Sloop Yacht "Pocahontas" of New York
  • Artist: After Charles Richard Parsons (American, Brooklyn, New York 1844–1918 St. Ives, Cornwall)
  • Publisher: Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
  • Date: 1881
  • Medium: Hand-colored lithograph, printed with tint stones
  • Dimensions: Image: 19 1/4 × 27 7/8 in. (48.9 × 70.8 cm)
    Image with text: 21 1/2 × 27 7/8 in. (54.6 × 70.8 cm)
    Sheet: 26 1/4 × 36 1/4 in. (66.7 × 92.1 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951
  • Object Number: 51.567.90
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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