Going to the Trot
date: label: Date made
content: 1870
name: label: maker
content: Kelly, Thomas
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color print of horses and carriages in a traffic jam on a road leading to a race track visible in the distance.
label: Description
content: A hand colored print of horses and carriages in a traffic-jam on a dirt road leading to a race track (Fleetwood Park, NY). The men and women are well dressed. Vehicles include sulkys, a deep side box buggy, and a coach for four passengers and three liverymen. The roadside house has shattered windows, a shed roof, a veranda, and a semicircular vent in the attic. The grandstand has two balconies. A park in the distance is enclosed by a picket fence. The surrounding area has wooded rolling hills.
label: Description
content: Fleetwood Park Racetrack was a trotting track maintained by the Driving Club of NY. While open, it boasted an exclusive membership, which included William K. Venderbilt and William Rockafeller. It closed in 1898.
label: Description
content: Thomas Kelly, of New York City, was one of the more successful publishers of the period, creating archetypal and idyllic views of all areas of life in America. Kelly's work is distinctive for strong coloring and vivid, forthright compositions.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: depicted
content: Horseback Riding
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1870-1879
label: Subject
content: Pets
label: Subject
content: Patriotism and Patriotic Symbols
label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Carriages
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Commercial Buildings
label: Subject
content: Wagons
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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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.60.3556
label: catalog number
content: 60.3556
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 18 1/8 in x 24 7/8 in; 46.0375 cm x 63.1825 cm