The old mare--The best horse – Historic Reproduction
(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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The old mare--The best horse
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The Old Mare, the Best Horse" presents a worn-out but beloved animal as the finest horse of all, a sentiment that suited the sentimental tastes of 19th-century American buyers. Scott Leighton, who signed the image, worked for Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued thousands of inexpensive chromolithographs. Published around 1881, the print was made by layering colored inks from multiple stones, a process that let the firm sell affordable color pictures to middle-class households. Horses were among the firm's most reliable subjects, since many Americans in that era still depended on them for work, travel, and farm life.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1881. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Artist: Scott Leighton (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4955 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175536 |
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