Sleepy Hollow Church, near Tarrytown, N.Y.

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Publisher Currier & Ives (American, 1857 - 1907)

Datepublished 1867

MediumHand-colored lithograph

DimensionsComposition: 11 1/8 × 16 1/8 in. (28.3 × 41 cm) Sheet: 15 7/8 × 20 in. (40.3 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891

Object number1959.76

Not on view

DescriptionA New York State view. A man, a woman, and two children pause on a road before a small church and cemetary, which stand on high ground at left. A horse - drawn cart can be seen on the road, at right.

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.).

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

Markings None noted.

Published References CURRIER AND IVES: AT CATLOG RAISONNE / compiled by Gale Research Company: with an introduction by Bernard F. Reilly, Jr. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, c1984. Vol. 1, p. 617.

Frederick A. Conningham, CURRIER & IVES PRINTS: AN ILLUSTRATED CHECKLIST (New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1983), no. 5551

Signature Not signed.

Inscribed "F.F. PALMER DEL." at lower left in typeset in black ink; "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Currier & Ives, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of N.Y." iat lower center in typeset in black ink; "SLEEPY HOLLOW" CHURCH, / NEAR TARRYTOWN, N.Y. / Pub'd. by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau St. N.Y." at lower center in black ink; "30" at lower left corner in pencil.