The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 37, no. 4

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from this period.
The lithography firm of Nathaniel Currier
and later partnership with Charles Ives
published, at low cost for mass distribution,
many of the most interesting and
well-known images of a prosperous
America conscious of its manifest destiny.
Their prints mirrored popular attitudes,
adorable pets, hunters and fishermen, fast
trotters, flourishing cities, patriotic events,
or mighty steamships, yachts, and clipper
ships. One is rarely aware of the evils of
growing industrialism, war, urban poverty,
or death in these pictures. With
uncolored prints available at low prices,
even the poor could purchase a dream.
draftsmen of the small prints have often
remained anonymous, those for the larger
and more lavish were frequently acknowledged
on the prints themselves along with
artists of the original works. The handcolored
Clipper Ship Red Jacket by
Charles Parsons after J.B. Smith & Son, is
an excellent example of the firm's large