Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The American Trotter
American Trotting Stud - Mambino Pilot, Flora Temple
Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph, c.1872 · hand-coloured lithograph
What it is
A breeder's sheet lines up the American trotting stud's sires and dams, Flora Temple among them alongside Mambino Pilot.
Why it matters
Flora Temple was already a legend by the time this sheet was printed — the first trotter to beat 2:20 for the mile — and breeders bought prints like this one hoping her speed would carry into the next generation.
What to notice
each horse posed separately in its own frame, arranged more like a catalogue than a single scene.
A pedigree is a bet placed years before the race.
Provenance
- Maker
- Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph, c.1872
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured lithograph
- Made
- 1872
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (LCCN 90708629)
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the work’s own year of publication. Cleared by registry on 2026-07-20.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 40x60" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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- The Links — the other morning religion.
- Painted Lineage — the bloodline, beside the family line.
- Painted Earth — home ground as a period map.