Yachts on a Summer Cruise
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.
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Yachts on a Summer Cruise
- Artist: Charles Richard Parsons (American, Brooklyn, New York 1844–1918 St. Ives, Cornwall)
- Lithographer: Parsons & Atwater (American, active from 1863)
- Publisher: Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907)
- Date: 1871
- Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
- Dimensions: Image: 16 3/4 × 27 1/2 in. (42.5 × 69.9 cm)
Image with text: 18 in. × 27 1/2 in. (45.7 × 69.9 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 30 in. (50.8 × 76.2 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1951
- Object Number: 51.567.6
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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