Help! Currier & Ives Litho or Print?

Any ideas about this one. I picked it up at an auction and came with a bunch of items.
Currier & ives. Winter in the country. The old grist mill.

Image size is about 18 1/8 x 26 13/16
image with margins is about 22x 29 3/4

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

is that mounted on some kind of board?

 

No board. Just one piece. I took it out of the frame like that.

 

looks like a laminated poster..

maybe some more pics might help clear things up..

 

I tried to get a better picture of the side. I think it is 2 pieces. The paper on top of the board.

 

Modern, I would think. That's foamcore and it certainly wasn't around in the 19th C. That said, I have an 1809 engraving that someone mounted to a piece of foamcore... unfortunately.

But Currier and Ives is reproduced a lot. The paper looks very white for it to be an original print.

Is there a date in the printing under the image?

Have you looked up other examples to compare paper and size?

 

Here's an original you can compare it against. But Currier & Ives so widely reproduced that chances are...

https://catalogue.swanngalleries.co...+-++764842&saleno=2527&lotNo=368&refNo=764842

Debora

 

This probably doesn't help....it's just the full size of the corner of the thumbnail posted in #5 above..........

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The board is the only thing that's throwing me off. The dimensions are spot on from what I had read. I don't to see symmetrical dot patterns. I see a lot of blue on some originals but this one has a lot of red. If you look real close behind the woman with the cows there is a red smudge behind her and above the center heading in the around the flowers there is red smudges in random spots. Very small just details I noticed. I do appreciate the feedback so far. Thanks.

 

more pics

 

Last of pics.

 

Please check the box for Full Image when posting photos. I’ve enlarged these.

 

Okay. Thank you.

 

When prints fade, it's frequently the reds that go first. So it's possible that a copy of this print that looks blue is faded. You want to make sure that the stuff printed under the image is exactly the same as on originals. Repros frequently omit or alter that information.

 

In the 1960s, Currier and Ives's prints were very popular when the decorating trend was Early American. There was a calendar and book published both of which can still be easily found. Many of the calendar prints were later sold as originals. C&I prints were made by stone lithography and hand-painted. Therefore, you will not find the dots of modern printing on the originals. However, their popularity rose after WWI and many re-stikes were printed. That might be what you have. I noticed the letters are not strongly printed. The stone lithos had a limit on the number of strong prints that could be handed pulled. Since what I have written is from memory as a small collector, I would not testify in court or call myself an expert. LOL