Deacon Jones' One Hoss Shay. No 1
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 horse with its head down and tongue hanging out pulling a covered carriage (shay) along a country road. A bearded man (Deacon Jones) sits in the carriage reading a paper. A sulky drawn by a single horse is visible on the road in the distance.
label: Description
content: A color comic print of a tired horse pulling a black chaise with green and gold trim down a country road bordered by stone fences. The passenger is old man with a straw hat, beard and high white collar reading the paper. The reins are attached to top of the calash. The road sign reads: “Boston 30ms. Nashua 11ms. Concord 2-.” Farm houses and a horse-drawn sulky are seen in the distance.
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: Horses
label: Subject
content: Carriages
label: Subject
content: Architecture, Domestic Buildings
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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.60.3561
label: catalog number
content: 60.3561
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 16 5/8 in x 24 1/4 in; 42.2275 cm x 61.595 cm