Catterskill Falls

 

Currier & Ives

 

c. 1870  

Hand-colored lithograph 

8 x 12 1/2" image 

text beneath image 

not editioned 

titled in text, lm; "published by Currier & Ives" "152 Nassau St. New York" 

Conningham 258 

cream wove 

published 

Currier & Ives 

15631 

$400.00 

Catterskill (or: Kaaterskill) Falls is a waterfall located in New York's Catskill Mountains, between Haines Falls and Palenville. With a double drop the falls is one on the largest in the Eastern U.S. and a frequent subject for Hudson Valley painters, including Thomas Cole. It was also the subject of a poem by William Cullen Bryant, the first stanza of which reads: "Midst greens and shades the Catterskill leaps, From cliffs where the wood-flower clings; All summer he moistens his verdant steeps With the sweet light spray of the mountain springs; And he shakes the woods on the mountain side, When they drip with the rains of autumn-tide." This hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives around 1870. On the verso, written lightly in pencil: "Presented to (Sylvie Poradoch??) by her teacher (unreadable) Feb. 21st, 1872."