Preview
Creation Date
1946 (reproduction), 1867 (original)
Geography
New York
Culture
American
Medium
Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions
Without mat: 19 15/16 × 29 15/16 in. (50.7 × 76 cm)
Credit Line
Long-term Loan from the Estate of Boris Blick, 2021
Accession Number
2021.1
Provenance
Purchased by Boris Blick from Stagecoach Antiques in Akron, Ohio.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Within image, lower left: "G.H. Durrie/186. [sic]"; and lower right, "Jno. Schuller Del. [John Schuller]"
Beneath image, lower left: "PAINTED BY G.H. DURRIE"; lower center, "Entered according to Act of Congress AD. 1867 by Currier & Ives, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of N.Y."; lower right, "CURRIER & IVES, LITH. N.Y."
In bottom margin, lower center: "HOME TO THANKSGIVING./ NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES, 152 NASSAU STREET."
This is the same as a print seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 63.550.505.
Bottom of page, lower left: "© A. Inc., 1946"; lower center, "No. 1034"; lower right, "Hand Colored & Published by Artistic Picture Publishing Co., New York City"
Creator Biography
George Henry Durrie, American, 1820–1863 (painter of original).
Currier & Ives, American, active New York, 1857–1907 (publisher).
Artistic Picture Publishing Co., American, active New York (hand colorer and publisher of this edition).
Description
This print depicts a winter scene of a farm house, coated with snow. A man can be seen working in a barn in the back left-hand corner while, front and center, two oxen pull logs on a sledge and are approached by a dog from the left while another man looks over at the scene to the right. There, a man has gotten out of a horse drawn sledge and is being greeted by a man and two women, one of them carrying a child, at the door of the house.