The Yacht "Haze" 87 Tons – Built by George Steers New York
Charles Parsons American
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
This nautical print represents the two-masted yacht Haze sailing to the left. A steam-powered vessel appears in the right background against the New York skyline, and the emblem of the New York Yacht Club appears below the title.
The New York firm of Currier & Ives (established by Nathaniel Currier, who formed a partnership with James Merritt Ives in 1857), made more than 7,000 lithographs between 1835 and 1907 for distribution across America and Europe. They offered images of almost everything animal, vegetable, or mineral in the United States, and issued landscapes, genre subjects, caricatures, portraits, historical scenes, foreign views and reproductions of art works. One popular sub-category concerned sailboats and racing. The pictures were drawn on lithographic stones, printed in monochrome, then generally hand-colored by women who worked for the firm at home.
