Deacon Jones' One Hoss Shay No 2
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
name: label: copyright holder
content: Warner, W. J.
label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color comic print of a sulky overtaking a carriage (shay) each drawn by a single horse. The driver of the carriage (Deacon Jones) is leaning forward, hanging on to the reins. His glasses are on his forehead and his hat and papers have flown out behind him.
label: Description
content: A color comic print of a race in progress on a country lane. It is between “One Hoss Shay” driven by Deacon Jones and a sulky driven by a middle aged man wearing a jacket, cap, and gloves. The Deacon’s horse is rapidly gaining on his competitor. As the Deacon leans forward, his gasses sit high on his forehead and his hat and papers fly out behind. A little dog scampers to the side of the road for safety.
label: Description
content: A one hoss shay is a covered carriage for two and pulled by a single horse. It was adapted from the English model and redesigned in Maine because of an overabundance of national pride as symbolized by the harnessed trotting horse. This print might have been made as an illustration of a satirical poem by Oliver Wendall Holmes about a deacon’s one-hoss shay, supposedly crafted so well it needed no repairs for 100 years, when it totally fell apart.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
topic: label: Subject
content: Glasses
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1870-1879
label: Subject
content: Comic prints
label: Subject
content: Pets
label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Carriages
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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.60.3562
label: catalog number
content: 60.3562
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 18 1/2 in x 25 1/2 in; 46.99 cm x 64.77 cm