Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The American Trotter
The Grand Trotting Stallion Bonesetter
Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph, c.1875 · hand-coloured lithograph
What it is
Bonesetter, sired by the Brooks Horse and carrying Pilot Jr. blood, posed to the sulky as a stallion advertisement rather than a race record.
Why it matters
A stud sheet sold a different promise than a mare's winning sheet: not a finish line but a bloodline, the stallion's conformation doing the work a purse would do elsewhere.
What to notice
The harness kept clean and slack, display tack rather than racing tack.
Some horses run for prizes; this one ran for a stud book.
Provenance
- Maker
- Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph, c.1875
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured lithograph
- Made
- 1875
- Horse
- Bonesetter
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (LCCN 2001702132)
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 27x41" cleanly.
Size
$29.00
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Fores’s National Sports — The Run In
The Trotting Mare Nancy Hanks
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.