Nettie: by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, dam, and American star mare – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Nettie: by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, dam, and American star mare. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Nettie: by Rysdyk's Hambletonian, dam, and American star mare
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Nettie was a trotting mare, and this Currier & Ives lithograph celebrates her as the daughter of Rysdyk's Hambletonian, one of the most influential trotting sires of the nineteenth century, and as a celebrated performer in her own right. The Currier & Ives firm issued many sporting prints of famous horses in the 1870s, when harness racing and horse breeding were popular subjects with American buyers. Hand-coloring was applied to the lithograph after printing, so each impression varies slightly in tone. The print is catalogued as number 4791 in the firm's standard reference, which helps researchers trace it among the company's other equine portraits.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1874. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 4791 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,083 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174980 |
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