A Kentucky breaking cart – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
A Kentucky breaking cart comes to life in this vintage poster, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A Kentucky breaking cart
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Edward Penfield's poster presents a Kentucky breaking cart, a light two-wheeled vehicle used to accustom young or untrained horses to harness and to being driven. Kentucky's long reputation for raising and training horses makes it a fitting setting for such a cart. The poster belongs to Penfield's Country Carts series, published in New York by R.H. Russell around 1900, when Penfield was one of the leading American poster designers, known for flat, boldly outlined areas of color.
| Created / published | New York : published by R.H. Russell, c1900. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color. |
| Genre | Posters American 1900.Prints Color 1900. |
| Notes | Copyright by Edward Penfield. Country carts series no. 1. |
| Subjects | Carriages & coaches--1900. Horses--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,436 × 1,163 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217203 |
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