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Title
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Steamship Lexington disaster
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Rights
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Public Domain
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Type
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Lithograph
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Creator
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W.K. Hewitt ; Nathaniel Currier. lithographer
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Date
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1840
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Description
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The fire and sinking of the Steamship Lexington on Long Island Sound in 1840, that killed abolitionist Charles Follen. This was one of the first popular lithographs by Currier and Ives.
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Charles Follen
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Publisher
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Currier and Ives
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Subject
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Drawn by W.K. Hewitt ; Nathaniel Currier. lithographer - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g03102, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1264596