Currier & Ives

Currier & Ives

The Harvest Moon, 1857–71

Hand-colored lithograph

29.2 × 41.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149767

Currier & Ives

Washington Crossing the Delaware – Evening Previous to the Battle of Trenton, December [2]5th, 1776, 1857–71

Hand-colored lithograph

20.8 × 31.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150685

Currier & Ives

Why Don't You Take It?, 1861–64

Lithograph

34 × 45.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-445600

Currier & Ives

Terrific Combat Between the "Monitor" 2 Guns & "Merrimac" 11 Guns – In Hampton Roads March 9th, 1862 – In which the little "Monitor" whipped the "Merrimac" and the whole "School" of Rebel Steamers, 1862

Hand-colored lithograph

19.4 × 30.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150720

Currier & Ives

The True Issue or "Thats Whats the Matter", 1864

Lithograph

24 × 36 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149950

Currier & Ives

The True Issue or "Thats Whats the Matter", 1864

Lithograph

24 × 36 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149952

Currier & Ives

The Body of the Martyr President, Abraham Lincoln, Lying in State at the City Hall, N.Y., April 24th & 25th, 1865, 1865

Lithograph

30.6 × 21 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-198929

Currier & Ives

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th, 1865, Passing Union Square, 1865

Hand-colored lithograph

20.2 × 32.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149785

Currier & Ives

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New York, April 25th, 1865, Passing Union Square, 1865

Lithograph

20.3 × 32.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-198926

Currier & Ives

The American National Game of Base Ball: Grand Match for the Championship at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J., 1866

Hand-colored lithograph

49.8 × 75.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150323

Currier & Ives

Horses at the Ford, 1867

Hand-colored lithograph

37.5 × 53 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149787

Currier & Ives

The Rival Queens – Mary Queen of Scots Defying Queen Elizabeth, 1868-1870

Hand-colored lithograph with gum arabic

30.8 × 21.2 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-347671

Currier & Ives

Steamboats Passing at Midnight – On Long Island Sound, 1868–74

Hand-colored lithograph

21.6 × 31.9 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149948

Currier & Ives

Moonlight on the Mississippi, 1868–76

Hand-colored lithograph

21.3 × 31.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150335

Currier & Ives

"Trotting Cracks" at the Forge, 1869

Hand-colored lithograph

48.6 × 74 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150043

Currier & Ives

A Race on the Mississippi, 1870

Hand-colored lithograph

20.3 × 31.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150339

Currier & Ives

The Great Mississippi Steamboat Race–From New Orleans to St. Louis, July 1870–Between the R.E. Lee, Captain John W. Cannon and Natchez Captain Leathers–Won by the R.E. Lee, Time: 3 Days 18 Hours and 30 Minutes; Distance 1210 Miles., 1870

Hand-colored lithograph, with gum arabic

20.9 × 31.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150688

Currier & Ives

Midnight Race on the Mississippi, 1875

Hand-colored lithograph with gum arabic

22.8 × 33.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-443747

Currier & Ives

The "Queen of Cattle" Bred and Fattened by George Ayrault, Poughkeepsie, New York, Exhibited at the Centennial, Philadelphia, 1876, 1876

Hand-colored lithograph

32.6 × 48 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149760

Currier & Ives

The Capture of Andre by John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, New York, September 23, 1780, 1876

Hand-colored lithograph

22.2 × 32.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-194917

Currier & Ives

The First Meeting of Washington and Lafayette—Philadelphia, August 3rd, 1777, 1876

Hand-colored lithograph

22.2 × 32.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150325

Currier & Ives

The Inauguration of Washington as First President of the United States, April 30th 1789 – At the Old City Hall, New York – The oath of office was administered by Chancellor Livingston of the State of New York – Mr. Otis the Secretary of the Senate holding up the Bible on a crimson cushion, 1876

Hand-colored lithograph

22.7 × 31.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150681

Currier & Ives

The Progress of the Century – The Lightning Steam Press. The Electric Telegraph. The Locomotive. The Steamboat., 1876

Lithograph

22.5 × 31.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-190864

Currier & Ives

The Rescue–Sergeants Newton and Jasper of Marion's Brigade, rescuing American prisoners from a British guard, who had stacked their muskets while resting near a spring, South Carolina, 1779., 1876

Hand-colored lithograph

22.7 × 31.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150333

Currier & Ives

The Tocsin of Liberty–Rung by the State House Bell, (Independence Hall) Philadelphia, July 4th, 1776, "Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof." LEV. XXV.10, 1876

Hand-colored lithograph

23.2 × 31.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150329

Currier & Ives

Washington Taking Command of the American Army – At Cambridge, Massachusetts, July 3rd, 1775, 1876

Hand-colored lithograph

22.5 × 31.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150331

Currier & Ives

Washington, Crossing the Delaware–On the Evening of Dec. 25th 1776, previous to the Battle of Trenton., 1876

Hand-colored lithograph

22.7 × 31.8 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150682

Currier & Ives

Nipped in the Ice, 1877–94

Hand-colored lithograph, with gum arabic

21.9 × 34.1 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150337

Currier & Ives

The Electric Light, 1880

Lithograph

21.6 × 33.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149769

Currier & Ives

A "Jib and Mainsail" Race, 1882

Lithograph, printed in color

36 × 53.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149783

Currier & Ives

The Grand Display of Fireworks and Illuminations at the Opening of the Great Suspension Bridge between New York and Brooklyn on the Evening of May 24, 1883. View from New York Looking towards Brooklyn., 1883

Color lithograph

30.5 × 44.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-196316

Currier & Ives

The Great Bartholdi Statue – Liberty Enlightening the World, 1885

Hand-colored lithograph

34.5 × 24.7 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-200214

Currier & Ives

Bar Thuldy's Statue: Liberty Frightenin de World, 1886

Color lithograph

29.4 × 17 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-399677

Currier & Ives

A Great Fair on a Grand Scale, 1894

Lithograph, printed in color

32.4 × 48.3 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1149793

Currier & Ives

The Snow Storm, c. 1864

Lithograph, with hand-coloring on ivory wove paper

28 × 39.2 cm

Art Institute of Chicago

C24-193399

Currier & Ives

The Whale Fishery: Attacking a "Right Whale" --and "Cutting In", ca. 1860

Hand-colored lithograph

41 × 60.5 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150045

Currier & Ives

New York Ferry Boat, ca. 1860–65

Hand-colored lithograph

20.2 × 31.6 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-1150311

Currier & Ives

New York Ferry Boat, ca. 1860–65

Hand-colored lithograph

20.2 × 31.4 cm

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

C24-199527