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Bound Down the River. Scene on the Lower Mississippi

  • ARTIST: George Fuller

  • PUBLISHER: New York, Published by M. Knoedler 772 Broadway

  • MEDIUM: Lithograph,

    DATE: 1860

  • EDITION SIZE: Image size 18 1/4 x 26 5/8" (46.5 x 67.6 cm)

  • DESCRIPTION: Printed by Geo. F. Fulier. Lith by C. Parsons. Printed by Endicott & Co 59 Beekman St. N.Y. Paris Goupil & Co. London Goupil & Co.<br><br>IAn image showing the hustling cotton commerce on the Mississippi River just before the onset of the Civil War. Laborers are shown loading bails of cotton onto the Princess. In the background the steamboat Hylas is shown heading downriver, likely to New Orleans.<br><br>This print is very similar in style and quality to the large folio Currier & Ives prints of Mississippi River subjects.. Rare.

  • ADDITIONAL INFO:

  • CONDITION: Good condition and color save for some repairs in the outer margins.

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