The Sleigh Race

Publisher Currier & Ives (American, 1857 - 1907)

Publisher Nathanial Currier (American, 1813 - 1888)

Publisher James Merritt Ives (American, 1824 - 1895)

DatePubl. 1859

MediumHand-colored lithograph on paper

DimensionsMat: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm) Composition: 9 × 14 1/2 in. (22.9 × 36.8 cm) Sheet: 12 × 15 in. (30.5 × 38.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams, Class of 1891, 1959

Object number1959.77

Not on view

Descriptiontitle in white

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.).

1979
Utica, NY. Oneida Historical Society, Fountain Elms. "Winter As It Was," January 14 - March 18, 1979 (no cat.).

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

1966
Utica, NY. Munson-William-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art & the Oneida Historical Society, Fountain Elms. "Winter Whittlings," January - February 1966.

1963
Utica. Munson-William-Proctor Arts Institute, Museum of Art, Auditorium Gallery. January 13 - February 10, 1963 (no cat.).

Provenance 1959: Hamilton College by bequest of Samuel Hopkins Adams

Signature Signed in typeset at lower center: PUBD. BY CURRIER & IVES

Inscribed Entitled at lower center in white, raised relief typeface: THE SLEIGH RIDE. / NEW YORK PUBD. BY CURRIER & IVES 152 NASSAU ST; in typeset at lower left: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1859 by Currier & Ives in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y.; in pencil at lower left corner: 64 HC. 95; on verso, in pencil at lower left: OPS / 63