By Which Melancholy Occurrence: The Disaster Prints of Nathaniel Currier, 1835–1840

By Which Melancholy Occurrence: The Disaster Prints of Nathaniel Currier, 1835–1840

The hapless steamboat Lexington left New York for its usual run up to Stonington, Connecticut, at three o'clock in the afternoon on January 13, 1840, carrying passengers and a cargo of cotton bales. The day was particularly cold and the seas beyond Throgs Neck particularly high; almost all the...

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Main Author: Genoa Shepley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2014-11-01
Series:Panorama
Subjects:
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alexander jackson davis
currier and ives
genoa shepley
nathaniel currier
nicolino calyo
nineteenth-century art
works on paper
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