Genl Tom Thumb & Wife, Com. Nutt & Minnie Warren at their marriage at Grace Church, N.Y., Feb. 10, 1863 by Currier & Ives: Museum Object and Cultural History
Genl Tom Thumb & Wife, Com. Nutt & Minnie Warren at their marriage at Grace Church, N.Y., Feb. 10, 1863 by Currier & Ives: Date made: 1863. depicted: Thumb, Tom. depicted: Warren, Lavinia.
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Color print, central image depicts General Tom Thumb and his bride, Lavinia Warren, flanked by Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren, at their marriage at Grace Church, N.Y., Feb. 10, 1863. This image is surrounded by small views of the midgets in a variety of costumes and roles with the largest of them being a view beneath the central image of a coach and horses labeled "Splendid Equipage of Genl. Tom Thumb & Suite, Cost over $2000."
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1863
- depicted: Thumb, Tom
- depicted: Warren, Lavinia
- depicted: Warren, Minnie
- depicted: Nutt, Commodore George Washington Morrison
- maker: Currier & Ives
- Object Name: lithograph
- Object Type: Lithograph
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: image: 10 1/2 in x 13 in; 26.67 cm x 33.02 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- Subject: Architecture
- Subject: Chronology: 1860-1869
- Subject: Marriage
- Subject: Horses
- Subject: Uniforms, Military
- Subject: Furnishings
- Subject: Entertainment, general
- Subject: Music
- ID Number: DL.60.3492
- catalog number: 60.3492
- Credit Line: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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