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The Champions of the Mississippi: "A race for the Buckhorns" / F.F. Palmer, del. ; lith. of Currier & Ives, N.Y.
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Print shows steamboats in a race on the Mississippi River.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1076
Exhibited: "Lasting Impressions : The Artists of Currier & Ives" at the Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, Delaware, September 2016 - January 2017.
New York City from 1835 to 1907 headed first by Nathaniel Currier, and later jointly with his partner James Merritt Ives. The prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand-colored. The firm called itself "the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints" and advertised its lithographs as "colored engravings for the people". The firm adopted the name "Currier and Ives" in 1857.
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