A color print of a train traveling through a busy town toward flat, open land.

Across the Continent. "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way."

Frances Flora Bond Palmer (1812-1876)

Date

1868
Object Type

Prints
Medium

Lithograph with applied watercolor
Contributors

Drawn on Stone by James Merritt Ives

Published by Currier & Ives
Dimensions

Image: 17 11/16 x 27 1/4 in.
Sheet: 22 3/4 x 31 13/16 in.
Inscriptions

Recto:
l.l.: J.M. IVES, DEL.
l.c.: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year AD.[monogram] 1868, by Currier & Ives in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. \ ACROSS THE CONTINENT. \ "WESTWARD THE COURSE OF EMPIRE TAKES ITS WAY." \ NEW YORK PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES 152 NASSAU STREET
l.r.: DRAWN BY F.F. PALMER.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

1970.187
Copyright

Public domain

Location: Off view

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