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The Favorite Cat

Publisher:
Lithographed and published by Nathaniel Currier (American, Roxbury, Massachusetts 1813–1888 New York)
Date:
1838–46
Medium:
Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions:
Image: 12 3/16 × 8 11/16 in. (31 × 22 cm) Sheet: 13 7/8 × 10 1/16 in. (35.3 × 25.6 cm)
Classification:
Prints
Credit Line:
Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
Accession Number:
63.550.159
Not on view
Signature: in stone lower center: "Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St., NY"
Adele S. Colgate (American, died 1962); Donor: Adele S. Colgate (American, died 1962)
Peters, Currier & Ives 2575c; Conningham 1970, 1921; Gale 2088
Harry T. Peters Currier & Ives, Printmakers to the American People. 2 vols., Garden City, NY, 1931, cat. no. 2575c.

Frederick A. Conningham, Colin Simkin Currier & Ives prints; an illustrated check list. Crown Publishers, New York, 1970, cat. no. 1921.

Gale Research Company, Bernard F. Reilly Jr. Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A comprehensive catalogue of the lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merritt Ives and Charles Currier, including ephemera associated with the firm, 1834-1907. 1984, cat. no. 2088.



Timelines
The United States and Canada, 1800–1900 A.D.

"American Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints": The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 37, no. 4 (Spring, 1980)

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