The Miller's Home
After a painting by Thomas Creswick British
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
Based on a painting by the British artist Thomas Creswick, this hilly landscape shows two girls and a dog resting at near the end of a stone bridge. Half way across, two boys look down at the water and beyond there is a wooden millhouse and adjacent cottage shaded by trees.
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 brother-in-law James Merritt Ives (1824–1895). The firm operated until 1907, lithographing over 4,000 subjects for distribution across America and Europe with popular 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 at home.
