Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Oil on canvas laid on masonite, unsigned, mid 19th century, presented in a period frame with composition ornament.
Frame dimensions 25 3/4 x 27 in.
Private Collection, North Carolina This painting is reminiscent of the lithograph
Midnight Race on the Mississippi published by Currier & Ives in 1875.
Extensive overall craquelure; small paint flake near bow of middle steamboat and two small flakes to figural group at lower left; minor scattered areas of retouch visible under UV light.