"A Midnight Race on the Mississippi"

lithograph

PRINTS - LITHOGRAPHS
Manning, H. D.; Palmer, Frances Flora Bond; Currier & Ives
USA
1860
paper
22-1/4 x 30-3/4 in.

Lithograph; hand-colored, large folio, published by Currier & Ives, 1860: "A MIDNIGHT RACE ON THE MISSISSIPPI"; port views of sidewheel steamers NATCHEZ [built 1854] and ECLIPSE [built 1849], racing. NATCHEZ at left in the lead; black men near cotton bales and barrels on lower decks of NATCHEZ and ECLIPSE; paddlebox of NATCHEZ reads "Vicksburg, Natchez & New Orleans Mail Line"; cotton bale emblem between stacks of NATCHEZ; delineated by F. F. Palmer, from a sketch of the NATCHEZ by H. D. Manning.

1996.126