Staten Island and the Narrows from Fort Hamilton.

[NEW YORK CITY]. CURRIER & IVES (PUBLISHERS)

Verlag: New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street, 1861

Beschreibung

Large folio lithograph (21 x 21 in; 53.3 x 68.6 cm) with handcoloring, after F[rances].F[lora]. Palmer (1812-1876). Loosely laid down on card and enclosed in mylar. (65B1C) In the foreground, a man, woman, and child stand on the banks of Fort Hamilton, while carriages are driven along the shoreline. Fort Lafayette is situated on a small island in the middle, with Staten Island seen in the distance. Frances Flora Palmer was an English artist who emigrated to the United States sometime in 1844 with her husband Edmund, a lithographer, in the hopes of establishing a lucrative printing business. When their business failed, Nathaniel Currier took over their stock, and hired Palmer to work for his firm. She was associated with Currier and Ives between 1849 and 1868, producing approximately two hundred lithographs, chiefly landscape, flowers, and genre prints. She was also technically proficient in the art of lithography. "[T]he foremost woman lithographer of her time" (Deák), she is credited with assisting Nathaniel Currier in improving lithographic technology. REFERENCE: Conningham 5715; cf. Deák 647. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 65ERM0131

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Titel: Staten Island and the Narrows from Fort ...

Verlag: New York: Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street, 1861

Einband: Hardcover