Loss of the Steamboat Swallow: While on Her Trip, from Albany to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845, 1845

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Medium

hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 20.46 × 32.07 cm (8 1/16 × 12 5/8 in.)

sheet: 31.43 × 42.39 cm (12 3/8 × 16 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Mary E. Maxwell Fund)

Catalogue Raisonné

Reilly 1984, no. 4098.

Accession Number

2015.19.803

Artists / Makers

Nathaniel Currier (publisher) American, 1813 - 1888

Image Use

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Inscription

Text at bottom of stone:
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1845, by N. Currier, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern Dist. of New York. / Loss of the Steamboat / Swallow / While on Her Trip, from Albany / to New-York, on Monday Evening April 7th 1845. / When opposite Athens she struck a large rock, took fire, / broke in two and sunk. By which melancholy occurence, it is supposed that nearly 40 lives were lost. / Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier, 2 Spruce St. N.Y. / 105.

Provenance

(The Old Print Shop, New York); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1953; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Old Print Shop

Exhibition History

1977: American Lithographs from the Corcoran's Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977

1981: Early America on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1750-1850, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1981

Bibliography

1970: Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 168, no. 3779.

1984: Reilly, Bernard F., Jr. Currier & Ives, A Catalogue Raisonné: A Comprehensive Catalogue of the Lithographs of Nathaniel Currier, James Merrit Ives and Charles Currier, including Ephemera Associated with the Firm, 1834-1907, volume 2. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1984, pp. 397, 422, no. 4098.