The celebrated trotting mare Lula, owned by Mr. Joseph Harker: By Alexander's Norman, dam thoroughbred – Vintage Wall Art
![The celebrated trotting mare Lula, owned by Mr. Joseph Harker: By Alexander's Norman, dam thoroughbred, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1874. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/63/637fec2b0899-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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The celebrated trotting mare Lula, owned by Mr. Joseph Harker: By Alexander's Norman, dam thoroughbred comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The celebrated trotting mare Lula, owned by Mr. Joseph Harker: By Alexander's Norman, dam thoroughbred
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Lula, a trotting mare owned by Joseph Harker, is the subject here, and her pedigree appears in the title: she was sired by Alexander's Norman and out of a thoroughbred dam. Published by Currier & Ives in New York in 1874, this hand-colored lithograph belongs to the firm's long run of portraits of celebrated harness horses, which appealed to owners, breeders, and a public that followed trotting races across the Northeast. Such prints were prized for showing a horse's build and bearing, and the hand coloring varied from sheet to sheet, so each copy has its own tones.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1014. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,098 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174266 |
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