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Currier & Ives, designer

The Little Alms-Giver, mid 1800s - early 1900s

Description

Maker

  • Currier & Ives, 1857-1905, American, designer

Title

The Little Alms-Giver

Year

mid 1800s - early 1900s

Medium

lithograph; hand coloring

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • hand coloring,
  • hand colored

Supports

  • medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

30.6 x 21.8 cm (12 1/8 x 8 5/8 inches) (plate)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Recto:in pencil in LR:4- Verso:in pencil in LL:43.574.1In Plate--In LR:T.N.; below image:PUBLISHED BY CURRIER & IVES 125, NASSAU ST.(T. superscribed and underlined) NEW YORK/THE LITTLE ALMS-GIVER./THE LORD LOVETH A CHEERFUL GIVER.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

43.574.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

A Case for Boxes

October 16 - November 16, 1980

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is The Little Alms-Giver with the accession number of 43.574.1. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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