Dec 01, 2010 - Sale 2232

Sale 2232 - Lot 241

Price Realized: $ 4,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(CURRIER & IVES.) Palmer, Francis "Fanny." [Midnight Race on the Mississippi.] Oil on canvas, showing a single double-stacker plying the Mississippi, with a flatboat in the foreground and the moon overhead, 14x17 inches, on the original stretcher and in an early frame; barely legible signature "F. F. Palmer" lower right. Np, circa 1860

Additional Details

Believed to be by the "Fanny" Palmer who did a lot of work for Currier & Ives, including the well-known image of the "Natchez" and "Eclipse" racing on the Mississippi River.