Currier and Ives

partnership of Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives

(born March 27, 1813, Roxbury, Mass., U.S.—died Nov. 20, 1888, New York, N.Y.) (born March 5, 1824, New York City—died Jan. 3, 1895, Rye, N.Y.) U.S. lithographers. Currier served apprenticeships in Boston and Philadelphia before he set up in business in New York City in 1835. He hired Ives as a bookkeeper and made him his partner in 1857. Currier and Ives greatly increased the public demand for graphic images by publishing fine-quality, black-and-white and hand-coloured lithographs (see lithography) depicting disasters, political satire, views of city life, outdoor country scenes, and sentimental domestic scenes. They established outlets across the country and in London. Between 1840 and 1890 they published more than 7,000 titles. The firm continued under their sons until 1907.

Currier and Ives

makers of colorful lithographs of scenes of nature and outdoor recreation. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 699]

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Other impressive pieces include the Currier and Ives lithograph ``The Road - Winter,'' (nice fake snow and skaters in the audience); James Tissot's ``The Letter,'' with a young woman disappointed by her absent lover; John Sloan's ``South Beach Bathers''; and the gravity-defying surf shot, ``Cutting Glass.

MOVING PICTURES ART COMES ALIVE AT PAGEANT OF THE MASTERS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

The famous "five-dollar-bill portrait" was grafted onto a generic body in the Currier and Ives deathbed engraving (and, incidentally, includes an inconsolable Tad, who was not present at the scene).

Picturing Lincoln: Famous Photographs That Popularized the President by B.C. / The Horn Book Magazine

Beautifully decorated with five different Currier and Ives holiday scenes, the cards allow for prepaid long-distance calls up to the dollar amount printed on the card, and can be used from any touch-tone phone.

Sprint/United, Sprint/Centel put a holiday twist on prepaid calling ... by Business Wire

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