Landing of the American Forces under Genl. Scott: At Vera Cruz March 9th 1847, 1847

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Medium

hand-colored lithograph on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 20.96 × 32.86 cm (8 1/4 × 12 15/16 in.)

sheet: 31.75 × 42.39 cm (12 1/2 × 16 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

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

Catalogue Raisonné

Reilly 1984, no. 3701

Accession Number

2015.19.804

Artists / Makers

Nathaniel Currier (publisher) American, 1813 - 1888

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite by unknown hand: 50-

Text at bottom of stone:
Lith. & Pub. by N. Currier / Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1847 by N. Currier, in the Clerks office of the District Court of the Southern District of N.Y. / 152 Nassau St. Cor. of Spruce N.Y. / Landing of the American Forces under Genl. Scott / At Vera Cruz March 9th 1847 / The Colors of the United States were triumphantly planted ashore, in full view of the City and Castle. And under the distant fire of both._ The whole army reached the shore in fine style without accident or loss. / 459.

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

Bibliography

1970: Conningham, Frederic A. Currier and Ives Prints: An Illustrated Check List. New York: Crown Publishers, 1970, p. 156, no. 3432.

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 1. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Company, 1984, p. 386, no. 3701.