A Night on the Hudson. Through at Daylight

by Currier, pub Ives

$4,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

#47 of the New Best Fifty Currier & Ives prints. The finest of all the steamboat racing scenes by the foremost woman lithographer of her time. Passing between Anthony's Nose and Bear Mountain, the two passenger steamboats are seen virtually neck and neck in this midnight race between Albany and New York City. This is one of Fanny Palmer's most memorable and successful pictures. Steamboat racing was a dangerous and thrilling activity that tested the skill of captains

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