Celebrated trotting horse Prospero, by messenger Duroc, by Henry Clay: Driven by Dan Mace. Record, 2:20 – Historic Reproduction
![Celebrated trotting horse Prospero, by messenger Duroc, by Henry Clay: Driven by Dan Mace. Record, 2:20, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b8/b87f26dc0ca9-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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A window into the past: Celebrated trotting horse Prospero, by messenger Duroc, by Henry Clay: Driven by Dan Mace. Record, 2:20, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Celebrated trotting horse Prospero, by messenger Duroc, by Henry Clay: Driven by Dan Mace. Record, 2:20
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Driver Dan Mace holds the reins of Prospero here, and the title's record of 2:20 marks the time the horse covered a mile on the trotting track. His sire was Duroc, and Duroc traces back to Henry Clay, pedigree names that carried weight with trotting fans of the day. Currier & Ives issued this hand-colored lithograph in New York in 1877, one of many sporting prints the firm made for a public eager for images of racing and driving.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1877. |
|---|---|
| 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. 1002. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,140 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174267 |
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