Wallachian Team
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: original artist
content: Schreyer, Adolf
label: graphic artist
content: Unger, William
label: publisher
content: Kaeser, P.
label: printer
content: Kargl, F.
notes: label: Description
content: Christian Adolf Schreyer (1828–1899) painted this dramatic scene of galloping horses pulling a wagon through the Wallachian countryside (now part of Romania). William Unger’s etching, made about 1880, was selected for exhibition at the Cincinnati Exposition in 1888 in an enormous display of past and present graphic art curated by Sylvester R. Koehler, the Smithsonian’s Graphic Arts Curator. Koehler was also a prolific author, editor, and advocate of contemporary etching. He published Unger’s etchings in <I>Foreign Etchings</I> (1887) and in his journal, <I>The American Art Review</I>.
label: Description
content: Schreyer’s paintings of horses and peasant life remain popular today. <I>The Chase</I>, his painting showing Arab horsemen dashing through a field, sold for $464,000 in 2005.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Horses
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Transportation
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content: Agriculture
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14981
label: catalog number
content: 14981
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: Etching
label: Object Type
content: Etching
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 10.5 cm x 22 cm; 4 1/8 in x 8 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 17.5 cm x 24 cm; 6 7/8 in x 9 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 33.5 cm x 41 cm; 13 3/16 in x 16 1/8 in