Celebrated trotting horse Henry, driven by John Murphy: As he appeared at Prospect Park, L.I. June 27th 1872, in his trot with Goldsmith Maid and Lucy – Antique Wall Art
![Celebrated trotting horse Henry, driven by John Murphy: As he appeared at Prospect Park, L.I. June 27th 1872, in his trot with Goldsmith Maid and Lucy, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1872. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/eb/eb6aeca926a1-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Celebrated trotting horse Henry, driven by John Murphy: As he appeared at Prospect Park, L.I. June 27th 1872, in his trot with Goldsmith Maid and Lucy. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Celebrated trotting horse Henry, driven by John Murphy: As he appeared at Prospect Park, L.I. June 27th 1872, in his trot with Goldsmith Maid and Lucy
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Henry, a celebrated trotting horse, is shown here with driver John Murphy as he appeared at Prospect Park on Long Island on June 27, 1872, during a trot against Goldsmith Maid and Lucy, two other famous trotters of the day. Harness racing drew large crowds in the years after the Civil War, and the sport's stars were as well known to the public as baseball players are today. Currier & Ives, the New York firm that issued this hand-colored lithograph in 1872, produced many such sporting prints for a middle-class audience eager to see the horses they had read about.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1872. |
|---|---|
| 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. 0995. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,049 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174262 |
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