Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!"" – 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.)
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Step back in time with Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!"", 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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Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!""
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Thomas Worth's chromolithograph "Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!" shows the trotting-horse craze that gripped American sporting life in the 1870s, when harness racing on dirt tracks and private driveways drew crowds of wealthy owners and curious spectators. Published by Currier & Ives in New York around 1877, the print belongs to a long run of sporting and comic scenes that the firm produced for a broad middle-class market. Worth, a prolific caricaturist, often used such scenes to poke fun at the pretensions of gentlemen drivers and the excitement of the track, and the print's lively composition rewards a close look at its details.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1877. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromlithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5513 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,106 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175609 |
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