Details
Contributor Humphreys, Charles S., 1818-1880, artist.
Bufford, John Henry, 1810-1870, printer.
Title Sherman Black Hawk. Appeared at the U.S. Agricultural Fair, held at West Phila. Octr. 8th 1856 and took the first premium, of $200.00 competing with horses from all parts of the United States. [graphic] : Sherman Black Hawk foaled May 30, 1845 the property of B.J. Myrick, Bridgport Vt. Pedigree. Sire, Vermont Black Hawk, dam by Young Hamiltonian, he by Bishop's Hamiltonian, by imported Messenger, Grand Dam by imported Matchum. Sherman Black Hawk is now owned by D. A. Bennitt, Birdport, Vt. and Dura Warren, Worcester, Mass. / Painted by Chas. Humphreys.
Publisher Boston: J. H. Bufford's lith
Date [ca. 1856]
Physical Description 2 prints: lithograph, hand-colored; 61 x 79 cm. (24 x 31 in.) or smaller.
Description Racing print showing the black Morgan trotting horse racing around the track at the grounds of the fourth national exhibition of the U.S.A.S held October 7-11, 1856. The driver wears a derby and plaid vest. In the background, several spectators watch the event from stands or standing within the center of the track. The judges' stand, the tents for the President and Marshall of the fair, and a tree adorned with the flag of the U.S. Agricultural Society are also visible inside the track. The United States Agricultural Society, formed in 1852 at a convention called by 12 state agricultural societies, strove "to embody in one central Association, the valuable information already obtained by various local Societies, and to establish a more intimate connection between them; to correspond with foreign Societies, and to diffuse a knowledge of their most important Agricultural improvements and discoveries; and, in various other ways, to aid the promotion of this noble art."
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Duplicate prints with variant hand-coloring.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 693
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 655 H 787a & Bc 655 H 787b
Subject United States Agricultural Society.
Horse racing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1840-1850.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 655 H 787a