Sleigh Racing on the Neck, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1854

Sleigh Racing on the Neck, Boston, Massachusetts depicts a crowded field of horse-drawn sleighs racing along a snow-covered street past a grand mansion, with spectators lining the road to watch. First published in Gleason's Pictorial in 1854, the engraving records "the Neck" - the isthmus connecting Boston to the mainland - during its brief heyday as a fashionable winter race-course for the city's fastest horses.

Sleigh Racing on the Neck, Boston, Massachusetts. 19th-Century American Wood Engraving Canvas Print.