A Good Race, Well Won.; Hartford Races
date: label: Date made
content: 1889
name: label: maker
content: Currier & Ives
label: maker
content: Worth, Thomas
notes: label: Description
content: A color print of an advertising poster. The scene is a race track in front of a judge’s stand. The winning horse, still hitched to his sulky and driver, is getting a blanket thrown over his back. Other horses covered in blankets are being led away. Men push the sulkys. The driver of the winning horse gestures to the judges in the stand with his whip. The spectators are dressed in sporty suits and converse on the track in groups of three or four. The surrounding area has wooded hills.
label: Description
content: Worth was a noted comic and genre artist. He was born in February of 1834 in New York City. He sold his first comic sketch to Nathaniel Currier in 1855 and later became one of the most popular of the artists whose work was lithographed by Currier and Ives. Though best known for his comics he also did make may racing scenes. He lived for many years on Long Island, though eventually he moved to Staten Island. Worth died in 1917.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: depicted
content: United States: Connecticut
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1880-1889
label: depicted
content: Horse Racing
label: related event
content: Hartford Races
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Advertising
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content: Sports & Leisure
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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.60.3229
label: catalog number
content: 60.3229
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Name
content: poster
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall (poster): 41 3/4 in x 29 1/2 in; 106.045 cm x 74.93 cm
label: Measurements
content: image (print): 18 in x 26 3/4 in; 45.72 cm x 67.945 cm