The Greatest Performance in Double Harness on Record -- A 2:12 Gait to a Road Wagon.
date: label: Date made
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name: label: depicted
content: Bonner, Robert
label: maker
content: Thomas & Eno
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color print of two trotting horses (Lady Palmer and Flatbush Mare) pulling a wagon driven by their owner (Robert Bonner) on May 10, 1862.
label: Description
content: A color print of a fashionably dressed man in a jacket and top hat driving two race horses (Lady Palmer and Flatbush Mare) from his road wagon, which has four high wheels. The horses run in perfect step along a dirt track in wooded countryside.
label: Description
content: Lady Palmer was foaled in 1852 by Glencoe and a dam by Imported Sarpedon. She was said to have been bred in Kentucky and raised in Chicago. Lady Palmer was eventually bought by Robert Bonner of New York.
label: Description
content: This print depicts a race on May 10 of 1862 in which Bonner drove the pair, hitched to a road wagon, to a time of 2:12 for the mile.
label: Description
content: The firm was run by Henry Eno and Henry Atwell Thomas from 1862-1864. Eno was a New York City lithographer and publisher, operating under his own name between 1863-1869 after the firm fell apart. Thomas was a lithographer and portrait artist who was particularly noted for his theatrical portraits.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: depicted
content: United States: New York, Long Island
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Wagons
label: related event
content: Horse Race of Lady Palmer and Flatbush Mare
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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.60.3579
label: catalog number
content: 60.3579
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 14 1/4 in x 19 7/8 in; 36.195 cm x 50.4825 cm