THROUGH TO THE PACIFIC 1952 Nathaniel Currier - James Merritt Ives - Train PRINT

Original 1952 Reprint 13 1/2 inch x 8 1/2 inch Colour Print of the 1870 Lithograph titled THROUGH TO THE PACIFIC

View of town from high above. Train headed on tracks from center foreground to center background – where tracks meet sea. River to right, and village alongside river.

Originally produced in 1869 by Currier and Ives. 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 brother-in-law 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 at home.

Inscription under the image: “Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1870, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. // REPRINTED FROM CURRIER & IVES, LITH”

Published by Bonanza Books, New York

Plate size 15 3/8 inch x 11 5/8 inch

Printed text on the reverse

The print is in very good condition.