Blooded Stock
date: label: Date made
content: 1837
label: Date made
content: 1837-06-01
name: label: maker
content: Bell, Jared W.
label: artist
content: Forbes, E.
notes: label: Description
content: A black and white print of a handbill advertising an auction of horses on June 2, 1837. A view of a horserace appears in the center of the text with details.
label: Description
content: Jared W. Bell was born in 1798 and died in 1870 from Bright’s Disease in New York. He had been married and was a painter by profession.
label: Description
content: Forbes was a historical painter and etcher born in New York City in 1839. He studied painting under Arthur F. Tait in 1859. From 1861-1865 he was a staff artist for Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper. Til 1895 he drew upon his Civil War sketches for etchings and book illustrations. He died in Brooklyn in 1895.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Chronology: 1830-1839
label: depicted
content: Horses
label: depicted
content: Horse Racing
label: Subject
content: Communication, broadsides
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Advertising
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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.60.3600
label: catalog number
content: 60.3600
objectType: label: Object Name
content: woodcut
label: Object Type
content: Woodcut
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 11 1/2 in x 7 1/2 in; 29.21 cm x 19.05 cm