The Celebrated American Trotting Mare, Flora Temple and Colt
date: label: Date made
content: n
label: Date made
content: 1869
name: label: maker
content: Mitton, N.
label: publisher
content: Smith, John
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color print of a bay mare (Flora Temple) and a colt in a grassy meadow.
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content: A hand colored print of a bay mare (Flora Temple) and colt, both with black manes and forelegs, standing together in a grassy meadow. A large three story wooden country home is seen in the background. Three men stand on the veranda, while another walks through the yard with a dog. A horse is being exercised in adjacent field. Wooden fences, trees, and shrubbery separate the fields.
label: Description
content: Flora Temple was foaled in 1845 it Utica, New York from the sire Loomis Bogus and a dam named Madame Temple. By 1861 she had become a racing icon, the “Queen of the Turf” and was the second mare, after Lady Suffolk, to trot the mile in under 2:30. Flora equaled or lowered the record six times, continually beating her own best times. Flora Temple is the “Bob Tail Nag” referred to in the famous song “Camptown Races” by Stephen Foster, so popular that ships were named after her. After her death in 1877, she was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 1955 as an “Immortal” because she won 92 races in her career. This image depicts Flora Temple at her last home, Erdenheim Stud Farm, owned by Aristides and Geroge Welch. She produced no offspring until 1869 when, at age 24, she was bred to the imported thoroughbred Leamington. Their foal, Prince Imperial was bred for speed, and while he trained, he never raced. He was sold to Robert Bonner, who used him as a road horse.
label: Description
content: N. Mitton created the large folio lithograph “The Celebrated Trotting mare Flora Temple and Colt.” Mitton created this work and other lithographs in the 1860s (this particular one dates to 1869).
label: Description
content: John Smith was a landscape, portrait, and equestrian lithographer and publisher. He is known for printing Tholey’s “Genl. Lafayette’s Departure from Mount Vernon, 1784” as well as Mitton’s “Celebrated Trotting Mare Flora Temple, 1869”. He is listed as living in Philadelphia, at 710 Sansom Street from 1863-1869.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1860-1869
label: Subject
content: Pets
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content: Architecture, Domestic Buildings
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Horses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3531
label: catalog number
content: 60.3531
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 17 5/8 in x 24 1/4 in; 44.7675 cm x 61.595 cm