Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!"" – Historic Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!"", an antique lithograph rich in period detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!""
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Thomas Worth, the illustrator behind many of Currier & Ives' comic sporting scenes, signed this lithograph, which carries the cheerful instruction "Ready for the trot: bring up your horse!" Published in New York around 1877, it belongs to the firm's late-1870s run of color prints celebrating the horse as a symbol of leisure and rivalry. Trotting races on dirt tracks and along city roads were a popular pastime then, and Currier & Ives sold such scenes to a broad middle-class audience eager for lively depictions of everyday American pursuits.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1877. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Chromlithographs Color 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Artist: Thomas Worth (signature on image). Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5513 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,046 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-106175 |
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