A little high strung"" – Vintage 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.)
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This antique lithograph of A little high strung"" brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A little high strung""
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The title, "A Little High Strung," plays on the phrase for a nervous, easily startled temper, and the humor rests on a horse that is as jittery as the words suggest. Thomas Worth, whose signature appears on the image, drew many comic horse and sporting subjects for Currier & Ives, a New York firm that sold inexpensive prints to a broad middle-class public in the 1870s. This example was published around 1879 as a hand-colored lithograph, a finishing step that gave the printed design brighter tones before sale.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1879. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3932 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,149 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175108 |
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