Currier & Ives “Frozen Up”

Currier & Ives.  “Frozen Up.”  New York: Currier & Ives, 1872.  Small folio.  8 1/2 x 12 1/2.  Lithograph.  Paper time-toned.  Light stain bottom right margin corner.  Sold as is in old burled wood frame.  New Best 50: 18.  C:2155.  A/A                                           Professional paper conservation will increase the visual appeal and value of the print.  From 1834 to 1907 the firm of Currier & Ives provided for the American people a pictorial history of their country’s growth from an agricultural society to an industrialized one.  For nearly three quarters of a century the firm provided “Colored Engravings for the People” and in the process, because of the democratic philosophy of the business, became the visual raconteurs of nineteenth-century America.  Nathaniel Currier established the firm in 1834, producing hand colored pictures using a then relatively new process called lithography.  Some of the finest artists of the day, Louis Maurer, Thomas Worth, Arthur