Iroquois
date: label: date made
content: after 1881
name: label: publisher
content: A. H. Baily and Company
label: publisher
content: Goupil & Company
label: publisher
content: M. Knoedler & Co.
label: artist
content: Hall, Harry
label: engraver
content: Hester, E.G.
notes: label: Description
content: A color print of a black race horse ridden by a jockey who wears black boots, white breeches, a red jacket with black stripes on the sleeve, and a black cap. He is carrying a whip. There are three other mounted horses in the background. A grassy meadow is surrounded by trees.
label: Description
content: Foaled by Aristides Welch in 1878 in Pennsylvania from Leamington and Maggie B. Trained by J. Pincus and notoriously difficult, on June 1, 1881 he became the first US bred and owned horse to win the Epsom Derby in Surrey, England. Iroquois was ridden by Fred Archer, nicknamed “The Tin Man,” who was originally scheduled to ride a different horse in the race. They later won the St. Leger Stakes at Doncaster Racecourse on September 14, 1881. He had not raced in the first race, the 2,000 Guinea Stakes, but if he had, Iroquois would have won the British Triple Crown. The excitement over his victories increased American racetrack attendance when he ultimately returned to American in July 1883 due to a bleeding condition. In 1886, Iroquois was purchased by wealthy Tennessee cotton planter William Hicks Jackson, a former general of the Confederacy, who moved Iroquois to the Belle Meade Plantation in Nashville, where he was put to stud. Iroquois became the leading American sire in 1892. He died on September 17, 1899 at age 22.
label: Description
content: Henry Hall Sr. was born in 1808 in London. He served his apprenticeship as an engraver before moving to New York City in 1850 and establishing a successful engraving and publishing business in which he was joined in 1860 by his sons Henry Jr., Charles, and Alfred. Henry Jr. was interrupted when he was called to serve in the Civil War; the family firm made many Civil War portraits, historical scenes, and copies of works by American artists.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: depicted
content: Horses
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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.60.2827
label: catalog number
content: 60.2827
label: accession number
content: 228146
objectType: label: Object Name
content: engraving
label: Object Type
content: Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 19 1/2 in x 25 7/8 in; 49.53 cm x 65.7225 cm