Through to the Pacific

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Publisher Currier & Ives (American, 1857 - 1907)

Datepublished 1870

MediumHand-colored lithograph

DimensionsComposition: 7 7/8 × 12 1/2 in. (20 × 31.8 cm) Sheet: 11 1/16 × 15 in. (28.1 × 38.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891

Object number1959.86

Not on view

DescriptionLandscape with locomotive in foreground and ocean in the distance.

Collections

American Art

Additional Details

Exhibition History 1988
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "America on the Move," January 9 - February 21, 1988 (no cat.);

1963
Utica, NY (Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Auditorium Gallery). January 13 - February 10, 1963.

Provenance 1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams.

Markings None noted.

Signature Not signed.

Inscribed "PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES" at lower left in typeset in black ink; "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" at lower center in typeset in black ink; "152 NASSAU ST. NEW YORK." at lower right in typeset in black ink; "THROUGH THE PACIFIC." at lower center ink typeset in black ink; "10: at lower left in pencil; "OPS.C" on verso at lower left in pencil.