The two-horse act – 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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of The two-horse act. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A rider balancing with one foot on each of two galloping horses is the central event of this hand-colored lithograph, which the record dates to about 1874. The print was deposited for copyright, a common route for American popular prints of the period, and its title and subjects tie it to bareback riding in the circus ring of the 1870s. Circus lithographs like this one were made to be eye-catching advertisements, so the bright hand coloring and dramatic action were meant to draw a crowd. Today it also documents how such acts were presented to the public.
| Created / published | c1874. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | E4328 U.S. Copyright Office. Title from item. |
| Subjects | Bareback riding--United States--1870-1880. Circus performers--United States--1870-1880. Circuses & shows--United States--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,045 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109341 |
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