Don Juan (recto) and Constitution and Java (verso)

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Don Juan (recto) and Constitution and Java (verso)
Don Juan (recto) and Constitution and Java (verso)
Publisher (American, 1813 – 1888)
Datepublished 1846
MediumTwo lithographs with hand-coloring pasted together back-to-back
DimensionsSheet (each): 11 × 15 in. (27.9 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891
Object number1959.26a-b
Not on view
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Exhibition History 1988
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "America on the Move," January 9 - February 21, 1988 (no cat.).


Provenance 1959: Hamilton College, by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams.
Published References Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 1243 (a); Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 1602 (b)
Signature Don Juan (recto): not signed.
Constitution and Java (verso): "LITH. & PUB BY N. CURRIER" at lower left in typset.
Inscribed Don Juan (recto): Entitled in typeset at lower center: DON JUAN.; inscribed in pencil at upper right [upside down]: HC 22 Box 3; in typeset at upper right above image: Pl.3; in typeset at lower center: 147.; [two columns of verse in typeset on either side of title]; in pencil at lower right: 20 [upside down] / yo [illegible]; in pencil at lower left: HC 22

Constitution and Java (verso): Entitled in typeset at lower center: CONSTITUTION AND JAVA.; inscribed in typeset at lower left to right below image: LITH. & PUB BY N. CURRIER, Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1846 by N. Currier, in the Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. 2 SPRUCE ST. N.Y.; inscribed in typeset from left to right above title: The Constitution had 9 killed & 25 wounded. Fought Dec. 29th 1812. The Java had 60 killed & 170 wounded; inscribed at lower center: 403.; in pencil at lower left: HC. 22






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