Hopeful: grey gelding, by Godfrey's Patchen, Dam Unknown – 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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A window into the past: Hopeful: grey gelding, by Godfrey's Patchen, Dam Unknown, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Hopeful: grey gelding, by Godfrey's Patchen, Dam Unknown
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Hopeful is identified by its title as a gray gelding by Godfrey's Patchen, with the dam listed as unknown, a detail that reflects how loosely pedigrees were sometimes recorded. The lithograph was issued by the New York firm Currier & Ives around 1877, when the company produced a steady stream of portraits of named trotters and racehorses for a public that followed the sport closely. Prints of this kind were prized by owners and enthusiasts alike, and today they serve as useful records of how horses were presented and marketed in the late nineteenth century.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1877. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3175 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,115 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174715 |
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