Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Monday, 2 November 2009
Currier and Ives
Currier and Ives was a successful American printmaking firm headed by Nathaniel Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895). Based in New York City from 1834-1907, the prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Lithographic prints could be reproduced quickly and purchased inexpensively, and the firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "coloredC
Plmouth Rock - 1620
The Plymouth Rock Monument, along the edge of Plymouth Harbor. The rock was not actually located there originally, originally lying in the harbor and moved to the site in the early twentieth century. According to an apocryphal story, the person who originally identified the rock only knew it from family tradition.
