"High Water" in the Mississippi.

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• ARTIST: Fanny Palmer

• PUBLISHER: Published by Currier & Ives, 115 Nassau St.

• MEDIUM: Two-stone lithograph with handcoloring.

  DATE: 1868.

• EDITION SIZE: Large folio - image size 18 x 27 7/8" (45.6 x 70.9 cm).

• DESCRIPTION: Drawn on stone by Fanny Palmer and James M. Ives.<br><br>A flooded plantation on the lower Mississippi. The plantation owners are shown on the roof of their stately home, shown here flooded almost to the 2nd floor. In the foreground, two African American families are shown huddled on the roof. In the background is the paddle wheel steamboat Stonewall Jackson.<br><br> One of the great images of life on the Mississippi.<br>Companion to "Low Water in the Mississippi."

• ADDITIONAL INFO:

• CONDITION: Very good condition. Framed in bird's-eye maple with gold inset.

• REFERENCE: Conningham 2819.

• CATEGORIES: Currier & Ives , Naval, Nautical & Marine , Mississippi River