Across the Continent: "Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: James Merritt Ives|Frances Flora Bond Palmer|Currier & Ives
Artist bio: American, New York 1824–1895 New York|American (born England), Leicester 1812–1876 New York|American, active New York, 1857–1907
Artist role: Lithographer|Artist|Publisher
Artist nationality: American|American, born England|American
Date: 1868
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph
Dimensions: Image: 17 3/4 × 27 1/4 in. (45.1 × 69.2 cm)
Image and text: 20 in. × 27 1/4 in. (50.8 × 69.2 cm)
Sheet: 23 1/8 in. × 32 in. (58.7 × 81.3 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Adele S. Colgate, 1962
Accession year: 1963