Palmer, F. F. “Winter Morning”

F. F. Palmer.  “Winter Morning.”  New York: Currier & Ives, 1861.  Medium folio.  11 3/8 x 15 ¾.  Lithograph.  Original hand color.  Paper time-toned.  Very narrow margins all around.  Lacking title.  Print is mounted to old backing board. Short tear upper left hand margin.  Sold as is.  New Best 50: 29. C6740.  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,