Trotting mare Nancy Hanks, by Happy Medium: record 2:09 – Historic Reproduction
(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 Trotting mare Nancy Hanks, by Happy Medium: record 2:09 brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Trotting mare Nancy Hanks, by Happy Medium: record 2:09
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Nancy Hanks was a trotting mare whose name was set in harness-racing history by a record of 2:09, a pace fast enough to make her one of the most celebrated horses of her day. This Currier & Ives lithograph, published in New York around 1891 and hand-colored, shows her as a sporting subject, the kind of image prized by owners and fans who followed the racetrack closely. Currier & Ives produced many such prints for the American market in the late nineteenth century, when trotting races drew large crowds and horses like this one were national news. The print is catalogued in the firm's standard reference, which helps place it among the company's late sporting work.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1891. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6675 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,025 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175195 |
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