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ID: 500115501

Record Type: Person

Currier, Nathaniel (American printmaker, 1813-1888)

Note: Currier had apprenticeships in Boston and Philadelphia. He set up a print publishing company in New York City in 1834. He hired his brother-in-law, Ives, as bookkeeper in 1852 and made him a partner in 1857, creating the firm of Currier & Ives.

Names:
	Currier, Nathaniel (preferred,V,index)
	Nathaniel Currier (V,display)
	Nathaniel T. Currier (V)

Nationalities:
	American (preferred)

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	engraver (printmaker)
	printmaker
	lithographer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Roxbury (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) (neighborhood) Died: New York City (New York state, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

partner in ....	Currier & Ives
..................	(American printing firm, 1834-1907) [500034474]

sibling by marriage (in-law) of ....	Ives, James Merritt
......................................................	(American businessman in printmaking, 1824-1895) [500029333]

sibling of ....	Currier, Charles
..................	(American lithographer, 1818-1887) [500115502]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Currier, Nathaniel (I)

Biographies:


	(American printmaker, 1813-1888) ..... [VP Preferred] (American artist, 1813-1888) ..... [WL-Courtauld] (American artist, engraver, 1813-1888) ..... [WCI] (Engraver, 1813-1888) ..... [WCI] (American artist, 1813-1888) ..... [WCP] (American printmaker, 1813-1888) ..... [BHA]

Sources and Contributors:

Currier, Nathaniel ........	[BHA Preferred, VP Preferred, WCI Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
......................................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
......................................	Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 131
......................................	Witt Library, Authority files

Nathaniel Currier ........	[VP]
....................................	Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (1994-2001) Accessed 07/16/2002.

Nathaniel T. Currier ........	[VP]
.........................................	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Currier & Ives." Accessed 07/16/2002.

Subject: ........	[BHA, VP, WCI, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
....................	Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (1994-2001) Accessed 07/16/2002.
....................	Encyclopedia of World Art (1959-1987)
....................	Fielding, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, Engravers (1987) suppl.
....................	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Currier & Ives." Accessed 07/16/2002.
....................	Oxford Concise Dictionary of Art and Artists (1996) 131
....................	Witt Library, Authority files


Note:
English	..........	[VP, WL-Courtauld]
	..........	Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (1994-2001) "Nathaniel Currier." Accessed 07/16/2002.
	..........	Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) "Currier & Ives." Accessed 07/16/2002.

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