Whalebone
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Kennedy & Lucas
label: artist
content: Hillman, Richard S.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black and white print of a trotting horse (Whalebone) pulling a sulky and driver. Inscription beneath image gives details of the horse's breeding and record.
label: Description
content: A black and white print of a light horse with dark mane pulling a road sulky and jockey on flat stretch of ground in the open country. The jockey wears a heavily padded suit and a cap tied under his chin. The horse’s equipment includes blinders, a bit, and a harness with attachments for draft poles of sulky.
label: Description
content: Whalebone was foaled in New York in 1821, bred by General Coles of Long Island through Bishops Hambletonian and a descendant of Coffins Messenger. He stood out from the other trotters of his day because he focused on stamina instead of speed. In 1827, Whalebone was able to trot 15 miles in 58 minutes and, in 1831, trotted 32 miles in an hour and 58 minutes. He and Top Gallant were hailed as the greatest trotters and rivals of their day. In addition, Whalebone had only one eye.
label: Description
content: Kennedy and Lucas was a lithography firm based in Philadelphia from 1829-1835. This firm illustrated work for the “Floral Magazine and Botanical Repository” as well as other contemporary works. David Kennedy and William Lucas were the firm’s partners though the firm itself was listed as a looking glass store, where they retailed prints, mirrors, and frames. Kennedy and Lucas was possibly the first commercial lithographic establishment in the city of Philadelphia.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
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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.60.3564
label: catalog number
content: 60.3564
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 15 1/4 in x 23 in; 38.735 cm x 58.42 cm