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Period: 1870s
19th century color lithograph horses chariot figures dynamic landscape
19th century color lithograph horses chariot figures dynamic landscape

19th century color lithograph horses chariot figures dynamic landscape

By Currier & Ives

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"Fast Trotting in the West (Milwaukee Race)" is an original hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives. It depicts two horses pulling racing carts. The text below the picture reads "Fast Trotting in the West...Lucy and Goldsmith Maid...trotting their closely contested race over the cold spring course Milwaukee, Wis. Sept. 6th 1871...Where Goldsmith Maid won the 2nd heat in 2:17!! The fastest Mile heat in harness on record. Purse $4000 $2500 to 1st $1500 to 2nd horse____ 8 in. in harness. TIME 2:20 1/2 2:17 2:20" 16 3/4" x 26" image 22" x 27 3/4" paper 35 3/4" x 41 7/8" frame Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders...

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1870s Animal Prints

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Lithograph

19th century color lithograph horses figures dynamic landscape
19th century color lithograph horses figures dynamic landscape

19th century color lithograph horses figures dynamic landscape

By Currier & Ives

Located in Milwaukee, WI

"The Race for the American Derby (Belmont Stakes)" is an original hand-colored lithograph published by Currier & Ives. It depicts three racehorses and their jockeys running in the Belmont Stakes. The caption for this lithograph says, "Spartan. Bramble. Duke of Magenta. Jerome Park, June 8th 1878. Mr. Geo. Lorillard's Duke of Magenta.....Hughes, 1....Messrs.Dwyer Bro's Bramble......Fisher, 2....Mr. P. Lorillard's Spartan.....Barrett, 3..... TIME 2:43 1/2." 12 7/8" x 16 7/8" art 21 7/8" x 25 7/8" frame Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders...

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1870s Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Lion" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870
Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Lion" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870

Antoine Louis-Barye "Walking Lion" Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot ca. 1870

By Antoine-Louis Barye

Located in SANTA FE, NM

"Walking Lion" Antoine Louis-Barye (France, 1775-1895) Antique Engraving by Firmin Gillot Circa. 1870 11 1/3 x 7 3/4 (21 3/8 x 17 1/2 frame) inches This is "Walking Lion," along with "Walking Tiger...

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Realist 1870s Animal Prints

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Black and White

Group of Six Water Fowl
Group of Six Water Fowl

Group of Six Water Fowl

By Alexander Pope Jr.

Located in London, London

POPE Jr., Alexander Group of Six Water Fowl. Group of Six chromolithographs of game-birds, each laid on to contemporary card (as published). [Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1878]. Alexander Pope...

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Naturalistic 1870s Animal Prints

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Lithograph