In the Harbor, New York
Drawn on stone by Charles Richard Parsons American
LIthographed and published b Currier & Ives American
Not on view
This view of New York Harbor includes a three-masted clipper ship at center left towering over smaller sailboats, another tall ship at right, and a small tugboat at center moving across the calm water. The Narrows are seen in the distance.
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.
