The celebrated trotting horse Gloster by volunteer, dam by Stockbridge Chief: Winner of the first prize in the $6,000 purse, for 2:20 horses, at Rochester, N.Y. Aug. 14th 1874 – Historic Reproduction
![The celebrated trotting horse Gloster by volunteer, dam by Stockbridge Chief: Winner of the first prize in the $6,000 purse, for 2:20 horses, at Rochester, N.Y. Aug. 14th 1874, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1874. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/80/800c77717698-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 celebrated trotting horse Gloster by volunteer, dam by Stockbridge Chief: Winner of the first prize in the $6,000 purse, for 2:20 horses, at Rochester, N.Y. Aug. 14th 1874 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 celebrated trotting horse Gloster by volunteer, dam by Stockbridge Chief: Winner of the first prize in the $6,000 purse, for 2:20 horses, at Rochester, N.Y. Aug. 14th 1874
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The subject is Gloster, a trotting horse shown after his first-place finish in a $6,000 purse for horses timed at 2:20 (a mile in two minutes and twenty seconds) at Rochester, New York, on August 14, 1874. His dam was by Stockbridge Chief, a well-known trotting sire whose bloodline was prized by breeders of the period. Currier & Ives produced many colored lithographs of celebrated trotters in the 1870s, when harness racing drew large crowds and the firm's prints sold widely to owners and admirers. The hand coloring gives the horse's coat and the harness detail a richness that the black-and-white lithograph alone could not carry.
| 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. 0994. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,071 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174261 |
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