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The futurity race at Sheepshead Bay: Sept. 03, 1888, value $50,000 won by Proctor Knott – Antique Wall Art

The futurity race at Sheepshead Bay: Sept. 03, 1888, value $50,000 won by Proctor Knott, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1889. — antique lithograph
The futurity race at Sheepshead Bay: Sept. 03, 1888, value $50,000 won by Proctor Knott, New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1889.. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Proctor Knott's win in the $50,000 Futurity at Sheepshead Bay on September 3, 1888, placed this race among the richest purses of its day for two-year-old thoroughbreds. The track, on the Brooklyn shore of Lower New York Bay, was then a center of American racing, and the Futurity drew wealthy owners, bettors and large crowds. Louis Maurer, a German-born artist who drew many of the sporting scenes Currier & Ives sold to a broad public, signed the lithograph, which the firm published around 1889. Its value lies in the record it offers of the track's crowds and of horses racing at full speed, a subject Maurer returned to often.

Created / publishedNew York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1889.
Medium1 print : lithograph.
GenreLithographs 1880-1890.
NotesArtist: Louis Maurer (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2392
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 985 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-112392

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