Vintage Box Set of 6 Plastic Currier and Ives Placemats -Winter Scenes C1972

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Vintage Box Set of 6 Plastic Currier and Ives Placemats -Winter Scenes C1972 :
$13.00

Vintage Box Set of 6
Plastic Currier and Ives Placemats
Winter Scenes
C1972Great Collector\'s Item!!!Authentic reproductions of the original hand-colored stone prints by Currier & Ives... from the Harry T. Peters Collection, Museum of the city of New york. These would be fantastic matted and framed!!Each placemat has a backside holiday design
(shown in photos)Prints:
Winter In The Country - A Cold Morning
Early Winter
American Winter Scenes - Morning
Winter In The Country - The Old Grist Mill
American Winter Scenes - Evening
Winter In The Country - Getting IceSome Facts:
Currier and Ives was a successful American printmaking firm headed by Nathanial Currier (1813–1888) and James Merritt Ives (1824–1895). Based in New York City from 1834–1907, the prolific firm produced prints from paintings by fine artists as black and white lithographs that were hand colored. Lithographic prints could be reproduced quickly and purchased inexpensively, and the firm called itself \"the Grand Central Depot for Cheap and Popular Prints\" and advertised its lithographs as \"colored engravings for the people.\"The firm Currier and Ives described itself as \"Publishers of Cheap and Popular Prints\". At least 7,500 lithographs were published in the firm\'s 72 years of operation. Artists produced two to three new images every week for 64 years (1834–1895), producing more than a million prints by hand-colored lithography. For the original drawings, Currier & Ives employed or used the work of many celebrated artists of the day including
J. F. Butterworth, George Inness, Thomas Nast, C.H. Moore, and Eastman Johnson. The stars of the firm were Arthur Fitzwilliam Tail, who specialized in sporting scenes;Louis Maurer, who executed genre scenes;George H. Durrie, who supplied winter scenes; and Fanny Palmer, who liked to do picturesque panoramas of the American landscape, and who was the first woman in the United States to make her living as a full-time artist. All lithographs were produced on lithographic limestone printing plates on which the drawing was done by hand. A stone often took over a week to prepare for printing. Each print was pulled by hand. Prints were hand-colored by a dozen or more women, often immigrants from Germany with an art background, who worked in assembly-line fashion, one color to a worker, and who were paid $6 for every 100 colored prints. The favored colors were clear and simple, and the drawing was bold and direct.The earliest lithographs were printed in black and then colored by hand. As new techniques were developed, publishers began to produce full-color lithographs that gradually developed softer, more painterly effects. Skilled artist lithographers like John Cameron, Fanny Palmer and others represented in the show became known for their work and signed important pieces. Artists like A. F. Tait became famous when their paintings were reproduced as lithographs.