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No One to Love Me

Currier and Ives -

No One to Love Me is a touching scene, portraying a donkey walking alone in the cold winter forest. His footprints leave a trail of loneliness behind him as he walks with his head down.

Currier and Ives was a New York printmaking firm that operated from 1857 until 1907. Nathaniel Currier was a printmaker who started the business and James Ives, who started as the firm's bookkeeper, became Currier's partner in 1857. Neither man was an artist. The prints were drawn and lithographed by other persons, such as J. E. Butterworth, George H. Durrie, Louis Maurer, Frances or "Fanny" Flora Bond Palmer, Charles Parsons, Napoleon Sarony, and Thomas Worth to name a few. Nathaniel Currier died in 1888 and James Ives died in 1895. The firm carried on until 1907 under the direction of their sons, Edward West Currier and Chauncey Ives.


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