[The trial of a horse thief] / Jno. Mulvany ; Clay, Cosack & Company lith., Buffalo and Chicago. – Historic Print
![[The trial of a horse thief] / Jno. Mulvany ; Clay, Cosack & Company lith., Buffalo and Chicago., c1877. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/40/40751811bfa6-L.webp)
(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 [The trial of a horse thief] / Jno. Mulvany ; Clay, Cosack & Company lith., Buffalo and Chicago. 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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[The trial of a horse thief] / Jno. Mulvany ; Clay, Cosack & Company lith., Buffalo and Chicago.
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The title sets this scene on the frontier, where a man accused of stealing horses faces a makeshift trial, a crime that Western communities often punished harshly. The chromolithograph was drawn by John Mulvany, an Irish-born artist known for Western subjects, and printed in color by Clay, Cosack & Company of Buffalo and Chicago around 1877. Prints like this one caught a public eager for frontier stories, blending courtroom drama with the rough, improvised justice of the period, and the crowd and setting reveal much about how such trials were viewed.
| Created / published | c1877. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Copyright by J.F. Carr and C.W. Green. |
| Subjects | Judicial proceedings--1870-1880. Criminals--1870-1880. Frontier & pioneer life--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,436 × 1,150 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216598 |
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