Flora Temple
date: label: Date made
content: 1859
name: label: original artist
content: Attwood, W. F.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Color print of a trotting horse (Flora Temple) standing in a stable. A bulldog sits on a horse blanket on the left.
label: Description
content: A color print of a bay trotting mare standing in stable. She has short a black mane and tail. A black bulldog sits on her blue blanket with initials, W.McD. The walls are plastered, the floor is of large bricks, and a dutch gate door is constructed with heavy panels. A water trough sits in the corner surrounded by hay. The horse’s records are recorded on top half of the dutch door.
label: Description
content: Flora Temple was foaled in 1845 it Utica, New York from the sire Loomis Bogus and a dam named Madame Temple. By 1861 she had become a racing icon, the “Queen of the Turf” and was the second mare, after Lady Suffolk, to trot the mile in under 2:30. Flora equaled or lowered the record six times, continually beating her own best times. Flora Temple is the “Bob Tail Nag” referred to in the famous song “Camptown Races” by Stephen Foster, so popular that ships were named after her. After her death in 1877, she was inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 1955 as an “Immortal” because she won 92 races in her career. This image depicts Flora Temple at her last home, Erdenheim Stud Farm, owned by Aristides and Geroge Welch. She produced no offspring until 1869 when, at age 24, she was bred to the imported thoroughbred Leamington. Their foal, Prince Imperial was bred for speed, and while he trained, he never raced. He was sold to Robert Bonner, who used him as a road horse.
label: Description
content: William F. Atwood was a portrait painter in New York City from 1858-1860. He exhibited at the National Academy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
topic: label: Subject
content: Pets
label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1850-1859
label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Domestic Buildings
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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: 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.60.3594
label: catalog number
content: 60.3594
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 17 in x 19 1/2 in; 43.18 cm x 49.53 cm