Aquatint, Lithograph, and the Instant · The American Trotter
Celebrated Trotting Mare Lady Thorne
Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph, c.1869 · hand-coloured lithograph
What it is
Lady Thorne, sold once as the Maid of Ashland, shown at her low, reaching trot with no track or crowd around her.
Why it matters
A mare's old name printed under her new one told buyers she had been remade by better training — pedigree by rebranding, the way the trotting world tracked improvement.
What to notice
The bare ground behind her, nothing to prove the claim but the stride itself.
A new name is a new argument; the legs still have to win it.
Provenance
- Maker
- Currier & Ives, hand-coloured lithograph, c.1869
- Era
- The Victorian Turf (1837–1901)
- Chapter
- The String at Full Stretch
- Medium
- hand-coloured lithograph
- Made
- 1869
- Horse
- Lady Thorne
- Source
- Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division (LCCN 90715609)
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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- The Links — the other morning religion.
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- Painted Earth — home ground as a period map.