The "Lightning Express" Trains. "Leaving The Junction."

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• ARTIST: Fanny Palmer

• PUBLISHER: New York published by Currier & Ives, 152 Nassau Street.

• MEDIUM: Two-color lithograph handcolored,

  DATE: 1863.

• EDITION SIZE: Large folio - image size 17 11/16 x 27 11/16" (45 x 70.3 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Original Best Fifty #7 (Currier & Ives prints, 1932); New Best Fifty #13 (Currier & Ives prints, 1991). <br><br> “Here we have an exciting episode on the rails. Two-night express trains, leaving the junction, run side by side for a short distance before their roads diverge - the engineers are indulging in a trial of speed, the one locomotive coal, and the other wood. The huge monsters, with their reflectors like eyes of fire and belching forth flames and smoke, seem to be rushing on with lightning velocity and the first impulse of the beholder is to clear the track to avoid being run over. Meanwhile, the moon calmly looks down, bathing the landscape in a flood of mellow light.” - Description from a printed advertisement by the firm of Currier & Ives.

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Fair condition, good color. Several tears in the margins, one into color. Discoloration in title margin.

• REFERENCE: Conningham #3535.

• CATEGORIES: Currier & Ives , Locomotives & Railroads