Hopeful: by Godfrey's Patchen, dam by the Bridham 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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This antique lithograph of Hopeful: by Godfrey's Patchen, dam by the Bridham horse brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Hopeful: by Godfrey's Patchen, dam by the Bridham horse
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Hopeful is identified here by pedigree: a horse sired by Godfrey's Patchen and out of a dam by the Bridham horse. For nineteenth-century audiences, a horse's bloodline carried real weight in breeding and harness racing, so the title would have signaled much to buyers of the day. This chromolithograph was published in New York around 1879 by Currier & Ives, and the artist's name, John Cameron, appears on the image itself. Currier & Ives sold color prints like this widely to a public that followed the trotting and breeding world closely, so the print offers a useful view of how popular horse sport was in the late 1870s.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1879. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artist: John Cameron (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3172 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,182 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175503 |
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