Central Park in Winter

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Publisher Currier & Ives (American, 1857 - 1907)

Publisher Nathanial Currier (American, 1813 - 1888)

Publisher James Merritt Ives (American, 1824 - 1895)

Dateunknown

MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper

DimensionsComposition: 8 1/2 × 12 1/2 in. (21.6 × 31.8 cm) Sheet: 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891

Object number1959.22

Not on view

Description"A moonlit winter scene of NYC's Central Park. Horse drawn sleighs fill the foreground. A full moon hangs at a top center over a frozen lake crowded with ice skaters."

Collections

American Art

Additional Details

Exhibition History 2005
Clinton, NY. Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College. Hamilton Collects, "A Century of Curiosities: The Story of the Hamilton College Collection," September 29 - December 30, 2005 (unnumbered cat., illlus., 41).

1971
Rome, NY. Fort Stanwix Museum. "Winter Whittlings," December 2, 1971- February 15, 1972.

1966
Utica, NY. Oneida Historical Society, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Fountain Elms. "Winter as it Was," January- February 29, 1966.

Provenance 1959: Hamilton College by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams

Signature Signed in typeset at lower left: PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES

Inscribed Entitled in typeset at lower center: CENTRAL PARK IN WINTER.; in typeset at lower left: PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES; in typeset at lower right: 125 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK; in pencil at lower left corner of sheet: 47; in pencil at lower left corner: HC.17; on verso in pencil at lower left [upside down]: Self [illegible]