Currier & Ives AUTUMN Mirror
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.
After the firm closed popular prints continued to be reproduced for the next several decades. The American Homestead collection, originally created in the 1860s, being one of the most popular and still sought after by collectors today.
This Mirror, from the 1930s, was one of several that incorporated the American Homestead collection. This one is the AUTUMN print depicting a family of the 1800s collecting their fall harvest of apples. It is encased with a mirror in a maple frame and hand painted in an antique finish to compliment the colors of the fading print.
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.
After the firm closed popular prints continued to be reproduced for the next several decades. The American Homestead collection, originally created in the 1860s, being one of the most popular and still sought after by collectors today.
This Mirror, from the 1930s, was one of several that incorporated the American Homestead collection. This one is the AUTUMN print depicting a family of the 1800s collecting their fall harvest of apples. It is encased with a mirror in a maple frame and hand painted in an antique finish to compliment the colors of the fading print.
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.
After the firm closed popular prints continued to be reproduced for the next several decades. The American Homestead collection, originally created in the 1860s, being one of the most popular and still sought after by collectors today.
This Mirror, from the 1930s, was one of several that incorporated the American Homestead collection. This one is the AUTUMN print depicting a family of the 1800s collecting their fall harvest of apples. It is encased with a mirror in a maple frame and hand painted in an antique finish to compliment the colors of the fading print.