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Publisher
Currier & Ives
(American, 1857 – 1907)
Publisher
Nathaniel Currier
(American, 1813 – 1888)
Publisher
James Merritt Ives
(American, 1824 – 1895)
Dateafter 1857
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
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.
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]
Unknown artist, American
Date: c. 1875
Medium: Albumen prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2024.4.4
Thomas Nast
Date: published November 28, 1874
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.262
Thomas Nast
Date: published January 30, 1864
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.53
Margaret Jacobs
Date: 2023
Medium: Blackened steel and found objects
Object number: 2025.25.1-4
Thomas Nast
Date: published December 5 , 1863
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.47
Nathaniel Currier
Date: published 1846
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Object number: 1959.89
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.127
Joseph Wheelwright
Date: 1994
Medium: Etching on paper with airbrushed oil paint
Object number: 2025.9.15
Ken Heyman
Date: 1985
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2018.12.47