Untitled (New York Riding School)
date: label: Date made
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name: label: maker
content: Imbert and Company
label: maker
content: Imbert, Anthony
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white print of a large auditorium in which two young ladies and two young men are being instructed in horseback riding by a debonair instructor. He wears black tails, a neck scarf, spurs, and carries a whip. The ladies are wearing long dresses and hats, and they are riding side saddle. There are three skylights overhead.
label: Description
content: Anthony Imbert was a lithographer and marine painter. He was one of the pioneers of lithography in America. Imbert took up painting while imprisoned by the English; he had been a French naval officer. Shortly after he arrived in America in the 1820’s he was commissioned to prepare lithographic plates for illustrations of Colen’s “Memoir” of the Erie Canal opening celebrations (1825). Imbert also painted oils of festivals. Imbert died before 1838. Piercing the Ears, a charming lithograph published in New York in 1825 by the French-born Anthony Imbert (a pioneering figure in the introduction of lithography in America), who reproduced a print by Léopold Boilly from his series, Les Grimaces, that had been published in Paris from 1823-1828. The Philadelphia firm Cephas G. Childs and Henry Inman also reproduced popular French prints.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Education
label: depicted
content: Horseback Riding
label: Subject
content: Horses
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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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.60.3596
label: catalog number
content: 60.3596
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 13 3/4 in x 18 7/8 in; 34.925 cm x 47.9425 cm