Volunteer
date: label: Date made
content: 1864
name: label: original artist
content: Thomas, Henry Atwell
label: artist
content: Humphrey, Charles S.
label: lithographer
content: Eno, Henry C.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Hand colored print of a brown trotting horse (Volunteer) standing in a pasture.
label: Description
content: A hand colored print of a shiny brown stallion with a stream-lined, muscular build. The horse stands in a pasture in rocky hilly countryside.
label: Description
content: Volunteer was foaled on May 1, 1854 Orange County, New York by Joseph Hetzel. His dam was Lady Patriot and his sire was Hambletonian and considered the most handsome of Hambletonian’s progeny. He was bought by Alden Goldsmith of Washingtonville, NY, the owner of Goldsmith Maid, in 1861. Prior to this purchase, he had been called Hambletonian Jr., but the patriotic sentiment of the Civil War prompted a name change. Volunteer’s best time on record was 2:37 for the mile. He gained a breeding reputation in 1871 and produced many first-rate trotters, including St. Julien who was at once the fastest trotter in the world. He lived to the age of 34, passing on December 12, 1888 on Walnut Grove Farm, Washingtonville, NY. Volunteer was inducted as in “Immortal” into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 1998.
label: Description
content: Thomas lived from 1834-1904. He was a native of New York City and lived and worked there til his death in Brooklyn. Thomas was a noted theatrical portrait artist, who also did lithography for the firm of Thomas and Eno from 1862-1864.
label: Description
content: Humphreys was a painter of oil paintings most notably of the portrait of Rachel White in 1854. After about 1853 Humphreys’ attention turned from sign painting to equestrian paintings. From 1856 on he painted 14 different works of horses and horse races. Due to the number of commissions he received it is believed he was an artist of some renown. His artistic style consists of foregrounds of horses and drivers. He has a very specific was of positioning the legs of his horses as well. Though the drivers are often stiffly rendered, the horses are rendered with an attention to detail. Humphrey retired to Long Branch, New Jersey in 1880, and died that same year.
label: Description
content: Eno was a New York City lithographer and publisher, operating under his own name between 1863-1869, and as the firm Thomas and Eno (a partnership with Henry A. Thomas) prior to that from 1862-1864. Eno was born in Connecticut in 1828, and was married to Caroline Eno. He left New York City for Orangetown, Rockland, New York where he died in the early 1900’s.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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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.60.3574
label: catalog number
content: 60.3574
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 13 3/4 in x 17 1/4 in; 34.925 cm x 43.815 cm