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Yacht Norseman of New York – Vintage Wall Art

Yacht Norseman of New York, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1882. — antique lithograph
Yacht Norseman of New York, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1882.. Antique lithograph from the New York City collection.

(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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This rare antique lithograph captures Yacht Norseman of New York in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The print presents the yacht Norseman as a New York vessel, placing it within the city's busy yachting culture of the early 1880s. Currier & Ives, the Manhattan firm that issued this chromolithograph around 1882, built a large business on colorful prints of ships, sport and everyday American life, sold cheaply to a broad public. Yachting was then a fashionable pastime for wealthy families, who raced their boats in New York Harbor and off Sandy Hook. Pictures like this one let viewers share in that polished, competitive world.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1882.
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
GenreChromolithographs Color 1880-1890.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7364
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,127 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175585

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