Winter Morning in the Country
1873 · Hand-coloured lithograph · Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The whole print, uncropped, on a printed cream mat with its title beneath.
Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Printed to order, arrives in 4–9 business days
- Arrives perfect or we reprint it, free
- Secure checkout with Stripe
- Questions? hello@madten.com
About this work
- Artist
- Currier & Ives (firm active 1857–1907 (Nathaniel Currier 1813–1888, James Merritt Ives 1824–1895))
- Year
- 1873
- Medium
- Hand-coloured lithograph
- Collection
- Library of Congress, Washington, DC
- Movement
- American Folk Art
Two chestnut horses pull a red sleigh at a fast trot past a snowy farm. A man and a woman sit in the sleigh behind four tall milk churns, on their way to market. Behind them stand a cream farmhouse with smoking chimneys and a barn where farmhands work beside a large iron kettle. Bare trees and low white hills fill the background under a grey sky. Currier & Ives of New York published this small hand-coloured lithograph in 1873, from their premises at 125 Nassau Street. Prints of this size were sold cheaply in large numbers for ordinary homes. The copyright number pencilled on the sheet dates it. This impression is in the Library of Congress.
This print reproduces the whole work, uncropped, from a high-resolution scan of the original. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A red sleigh, chestnut horses and silver milk churns crossing a white farm landscape. It suits a kitchen, breakfast room or country hallway beside Homer's Crossing the Pasture, in a dark wood frame.
Size, framing & materials
- Style
- American Folk Art painting
- Era
- 19th century (1873)
- Orientation
- Landscape
- Mood
- dramatic, moody
- Rooms
- kitchen, hallway or entryway, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 16×12, 24×18 in — 16×12 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 24×18 above a console or sideboard. See it to scale on your wall →
Framing. The gallery ground is part of the print, so frame it without a mat — dark wood flatters the lighter palette; black sharpens it.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
- Restored in-house from a scan of the original print, cleaned and colour-trued at museum resolution
- Museum-quality archival paper: heavyweight, acid-free, resists yellowing
- Framed option: wood frame in black or dark wood, 12 mm wide and 22 mm deep, with a plexiglass front and no mat; the print is mounted inside and the frame's outside measures the listed size
- Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen
