Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2397Location: BostonDate / Time: February 17, 2008 11:00AM
Description:
Nathaniel Currier, publisher (American, 1813-1888)
American Winter Scenes. Evening., 1854, (Conningham, 207). Identified in inscriptions in the matrix. Large folio lithograph with hand-coloring on paper, sheet size 22 3/4 x 29 7/8 in., in a contemporary molded birds-eye maple veneer frame. Condition: Margins of 2 7/8 in. or more, repaired tears on margin edges, minor toning.
Note: This lithograph ranks no. 19 in the "New Best 50," large folio.
Estimate $2,500-3,500
repaired tear at u.l. and l.r. corner four repaired margin edge tears about 1/2 in. in., none into or close to image, a 1/2 in. u.l. margin tear, small 1/4 in. tear l.l. corner