Central Park in Winter
Lithographer Currier & Ives American
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
In this moonlit scene sleighs move through the foreground and skaters are shown in the distance upon the Skating Pond in New York's Central Park, with the cast iron Bow Bridge 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, 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.