John Bascombe
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Dick, A.
label: original artist
content: Troye, E.
notes: label: Description
content: A color print of a chestnut horse with white stockings standing in a pasture. A body of water is in the background. A cartouche in the lower margin shows a horserace or hunt involving four horses and jockeys and a head of a deer and dog amid a border of leaves and roses.
label: Description
content: John Bascombe was foaled in 1831by John O. Connally of Huntsville, AL from Bertrand and Grey Goose. Under his owner Colonel John Cromwell, John Bascombe won two notable races. The first was against the horse Argyle at the Lafayette Course in Augusta, GA. Then in 1836 he defeated Post Boy at the Union Course in Long Island.
label: Description
content: Archibald Dick lived 1805-1855. He was born in Scotland and studied engraving in Edinburgh before coming to America in the early 1830’s. He was a partner at the New York City firm of Barnard and Dick in 1831 before he joined Gimmer and Dick in 1833. He later left this firm to establish his own solo firm. Dick lived in Brooklyn until his death in 1855. His works were reproduced in contemporary magazines.
label: Description
content: Edward (E.) Troye was an animal, portrait, and figure painting born near Geneva Switzerland in 1808. Troye came to America via the West Indies in 1828 and settled in Philadelphia where he worked with Sartain’s Magazine. From 1835-1874 he spent most of his time in Kentucky, specializing in portraits of race horses. He did teach at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama from 1849-1855. He died in Georgetown, Kentucky in 1874.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: World
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
label: Subject
content: Communication, newspapers
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
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content: Peters Prints
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content: Domestic Furnishings
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content: Horses
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.60.3619
label: catalog number
content: 60.3619
objectType: label: Object Name
content: engraving
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 11 in x 14 in; 27.94 cm x 35.56 cm