Pacing for a grand purse – 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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Step back in time with Pacing for a grand purse, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Few sporting subjects drew as much public attention in late nineteenth-century America as harness racing, and this chromolithograph shows pacers contesting a grand purse, the large prize that drew owners and crowds to the trotting tracks. Louis Maurer, a frequent illustrator of horses for the firm, signed the design, and Currier & Ives published it in New York around 1890. Pacers move the two legs on each side together, a gait prized for speed and smoothness, and the firm's racing prints carried that enthusiasm into homes across the country.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1890. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs 1890. |
| Notes | Artist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5070 |
| Subjects | Harness racing--1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,144 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175594 |
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