Distanced!! – Antique Print
![Distanced!!, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1878. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c3/c3e79c437625-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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Distanced!! 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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Distanced!!" is a racing term for a competitor beaten so thoroughly that they fall out of contention, and the double exclamation points suggest the joke is in the defeat itself. The lithograph was issued in New York in 1878 by Currier & Ives, a firm that produced inexpensive color prints on sporting, comic, and everyday subjects for a broad middle-class market. Its sporting humor reflects the late 1870s, when horse racing drew large crowds and the firm's comic sheets were a familiar sight in homes and shop windows.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1878. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1726. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,052 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174374 |
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