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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.

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