Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The American Trotter
Champion Trotting Stallion Smuggler
Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph, c.1876 · hand-coloured lithograph
What it is
Smuggler, the champion trotting stallion of the Milton stud, is shown alone at his trot.
Why it matters
Currier & Ives printed champion sires like Smuggler as much for the breeding trade as for racing fans — a stallion's sheet sold his bloodline to broodmare owners as much as it celebrated his speed.
What to notice
the deliberate profile pose, built to show conformation as clearly as gait.
A stallion's real race is the one run in his foals.
Provenance
- Maker
- Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph, c.1876
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured lithograph
- Made
- 1876
- Horse
- Smuggler
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (LCCN 90715815)
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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Elsewhere in the family
- The Links — the other morning religion.
- Painted Lineage — the bloodline, beside the family line.
- Painted Earth — home ground as a period map.