Columbus
date: label: Date made
content: n.d.
name: label: maker
content: Childs & Inman
label: original artist
content: Hillman, Richard S.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black and white print of a trotting horse (Columbus) and rider.
label: Description
content: A black and white print of a dark horse with bobbed tail, carrying a jockey and trotting. A covered gig is in the background.
label: Description
content: Columbus had an unclear pedigree, but became well-known for his trotting skills under saddle. In 1830 he raced and defeated Sally Miller. Ridden by Peter Whelan, Columbus was the first horse to trot three miles in less than eight minutes, which he did in 1833. He went on to win at least 22 matches under saddle.
label: Description
content: Located at 122 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA from 1825-1858. Cephas Childs was one of the first print engravers in Philadelphia to turn to lithography. Childs formed the 1829 company Pendleton, Kearny & Childs only to leave in 1830 to start the lithographic firm Childs and Inman with New Yorker Henry Inman. Childs went to Paris to study lithography and brought D.S. Duval back to the US with him. Duval joined head artist George Lehman in 1834 when Childs left the firm Duval and Lehman (Inman had left in 1833).
label: Description
content: Henry Inman was an American landscape and portrait painter born in NY in 1801. He moved to New York City for his apprenticeship to John Wesley Jarvis, and in 1825 he cofounded the National Academy of Design, and was named Vice President of the institution. In 1831 he began his partnership with Childs, who reproduced many of Inman’s works but Inman returned to oil painting in 1833. Inman left for England in 1844.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
topic: label: Subject
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.60.3602
label: catalog number
content: 60.3602
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lithograph
label: Object Type
content: Lithograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: image: 10 1/2 in x 13 in; 26.67 cm x 33.02 cm