Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication _American Naive Paintings_, pages 493-495, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/American%20Naive%20Painting.pdf
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Details
Title: The Hobby Horse
Creator: Robert Peckham
Date Created: c. 1840
Physical Dimensions: overall: 103.5 x 101.6 cm (40 3/4 x 40 in.)
framed: 120 x 116.8 x 8.8 cm (47 1/4 x 46 x 3 7/16 in.)
Provenance: Recorded as from Massachusetts. (unknown antique dealer, Billerica, Massachusetts). (Vose Galleries, Boston); sold 1953 to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch; gift 1955 to NGA.