A Home in the Wilderness

Publisher Currier & Ives American

1870

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Artwork Details

Title: A Home in the Wilderness
Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
Date: 1870
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 8 × 12 1/2 in. (20.3 × 31.8 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 13 3/4 in. (25.7 × 34.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
Object Number: 63.550.204
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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