Head and head at the winning post – Antique Print
(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: Head and head at the winning post, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Two horses reach the line so evenly matched that the title, "Head and head at the winning post," says it all: only a head separates them as they cross the finish. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold colored lithographs to a broad American public, produced many racing scenes like this in the 1880s, when horse racing drew large crowds to tracks across the country. Chromolithographs such as this were built from a series of stones, each inked in a different color, so the bright hues and sharp action came from careful multistep printing. The firm's catalog raisonné lists the print as no. 2990.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1884. |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2990 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,091 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175501 |
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