The Parson's colt: hears a trotter behind him and won't be stopped, if it is Sunday – Antique Wall Art
(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 Parson's colt: hears a trotter behind him and won't be stopped, if it is Sunday comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Parson's colt: hears a trotter behind him and won't be stopped, if it is Sunday
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A parson's colt that hears a trotter approaching from behind and refuses to be held back is the joke at the center of this comic lithograph, and the title adds the pointed condition that it is Sunday. Thomas Worth, who signed the image, was one of the artists who drew humorous and sporting scenes for Currier & Ives, the New York firm that sold such prints widely in the 1870s. Trotting races and harness horses were a popular pastime of the day, and the contrast between a clergyman's sober Sabbath and a horse eager to race was a familiar source of gentle satire. The print is hand-colored, a detail that gave these inexpensive lithographs their lively, saleable finish.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1879. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5103 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,089 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175009 |
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