The Three Horsemen – Historic 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.)
Description
A window into the past: The Three Horsemen, preserved in this antique lithograph. 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 Three Horsemen
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Three mounted riders give this lithograph its focus, and the print method itself let a single drawing be reproduced in many copies. Lithography, developed in the late eighteenth century, was widely used through the nineteenth century for sporting scenes, portraits and popular illustration, and horses were a favorite subject because they carried military, working and leisure associations. The caption card records no date or maker, so the exact circumstances of its creation are unknown, but its subject and medium place it within that long tradition of equestrian prints.
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,086 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-124341 |
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