Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The American Trotter
Trotting Cracks at Home, a Model Stable
Currier & Ives after Thomas Worth, hand-coloured lithograph, 1868 · hand-coloured lithograph
What it is
A row of celebrated trotters stand at ease in an idealized stable while their gentlemen owners look them over.
Why it matters
Thomas Worth built much of his career on this exact scene for Currier & Ives, because owning a famous trotter, not necessarily racing one, was the point for most of the print's buyers.
What to notice
the fussy grooming detail — brushed coats, plaited tails — on horses that are, in this picture, doing nothing but standing still.
A stable can be a portrait gallery.
Provenance
- Maker
- Currier & Ives after Thomas Worth, hand-coloured lithograph, 1868
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured lithograph
- Made
- 1868
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (LCCN 91483204)
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
More from the Stable Wall
Steeplechasing — The Start
‘Elis’, Winner of the St Leger, 1836
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.