View the list of newly recorded Currier & Ives prints
How to use the list:
Entries are listed alphabetically by title with the following information (when available):
Field | Example |
Title |
Dash |
Stock number. Size |
No. 44. Small. Vignette. |
Publisher |
Publisher: Nathaniel Currier, 2 Spruce St. No date. |
Description |
Head of sad-eyed, long-eared dog with dress glove in mouth. |
AHPCS entry number |
RUD-021 |
Title
Titles are transcribed as they appear on the prints. In instances where a print lacks a title, the entry appears at the end in the “Untitled” section. Any subtitles (and additional text) appear directly following the title as it appears on the print.
Stock number
Occasionally printmakers printed a small number in the bottom margin of a print. This number, the stock number, was used in the identification of prints.
Size and Measurements
The parameters used in assigning size categories are as follows:
- Very small: up to about 7 x 9 in., or 18 x 23 cm.
- Small: approx. 8.5 x 12.5 in. (Gale defines “small” to be 7 x 9 in. to 9 x 14 in., or 18 x 23 cm. to 23 x 36 cm.)
- Medium: from 9 x 14 in. to 14 x 20 in., or 23 x 36 cm. to 36 x 51 cm.
- Large: over 14 x 20 in., or 36 x 51 cm.
Note: Images that are not within a ruled, printed border are classified as vignettes.
Publisher information
Some prints list the publisher’s address or identify the publisher solely by address.
1834-35 | Stodart & Currier | 137 Broadway |
1835 | Nathaniel Currier | 1 Wall Street |
1836-37 | Nathaniel Currier | 148 Nassau Street |
1838-56 | Nathaniel Currier | 152 Nassau and 2 Spruce Street |
1857-65 | Currier & Ives | 152 Nassau Street and 2 Spruce Street |
1866-72 | Currier & Ives | 152 Nassau and 33 Spruce Street |
1872-74 | Currier & Ives | 125 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street |
1874-77 | Currier & Ives | 123 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce |
1877-94 | Currier & Ives | 115 Nassau Street and 33 Spruce Street |
1894-96 | Currier & Ives | 108 Fulton and 33 Spruce Street |
1896-1907 | Currier & Ives | 33 Spruce Street |
Description
A brief description of the print. Frequently, this section includes features that distinguish the print from a similar print already recorded in “Conn.” or “Gale.” “Conn.” is shorthand for Frederic A. Conningham’s Currier & Ives Prints: An Illustrated Checklist last updated in 1983. “Gale” refers to Currier & Ives: A Catalogue Raisonne published by the Gale Research Group in 1984.
AHPCS Entry Number
A unique entry number has been assigned to each print. The three-letter code indicates the contributor of the information. This code is followed by a number sequence in the order that the prints were added to the list. Contributors are abbreviated as follows:
- AAS American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, MA)
- KMR Mary Ryan
- PPS Philadelphia Print Shop (Philadelphia, PA)
- RUD John and Barbara Rudisill (Worton, MD)
- THM Thomas H. Moody (Nobleboro, ME)