Yachts on a Summer Cruise
Charles Richard Parsons American
Lithographer Parsons & Atwater American
Publisher Currier & Ives American
Not on view
This nautical print represents four yachts sailing to the left, with a fifth moving towards the right foreground.
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 issued landscapes, genre subjects, urban scenes, caricatures, portraits, historical subjects, pictures of animals and reproductions of art works. One popular sub-category concerned yachting and racing. The pictures were drawn on lithographic stones, printed in monochrome, then generally hand-colored by women who worked for the firm.
