Catterskill falls – Vintage Print
![Catterskill falls, [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/db/db002e19ea19-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Catterskill falls. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Catterskill falls
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Few waterfalls in the Northeast drew as many nineteenth-century visitors as Kaaterskill Falls, the cascade in New York's Catskill Mountains that this print spells "Catterskill." The falls drop more than 200 feet in two stages, and their wild setting made them a favorite of Hudson River School painters and of travelers staying at the nearby Catskill Mountain House. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for inexpensive lithographs, issued many scenic views like this one for a popular market, and this impression was finished by hand with color, which made each copy look somewhat individual. The record dates it only to the firm's working life, which ran until 1907.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, [between 1856 and 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1850-1910. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0952 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,082 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174177 |
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