Details
Creator Dacre, Henry, b. ca. 1820, artist.
Contributor Greiner, Christopher M., d. 1864, printer.
Title Philadelphia Riding School [graphic] / H. Dacre.
Publisher [Philadelphia]: C.M. Greiner, No. 43 North Fourth St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1850
Date [ca. 1850]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 20 x 25 cm. (7.75 x 9.75 in.)
Description Interior view of the riding school operated by Thomas Craige & Son at 4th Street above Vine Street. Showing a large room filled with men and women attired in riding habits riding horses along the periphery. The women, including one attended by a man not on a mount at the center of the room, ride side saddle. The walls, some adorned with windows, are decorated with landscape murals. A woman and a boy holding riding crops stand and watch, with a small dog, by a railing in the foreground. Two crops and a sash rest at the opposite end of the railing. Craige, a riding master, operated a riding school on Fourth Street circa 1840-circa 1860s. The school was advertised as the largest building of its kind in the United States in 1850.
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 592
LCP AR [Annual Report] 1989, p. 46.
School advertised in Philadelphia Inquirer (February 1, 1850).
Subject Philadelphia Riding School (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Horseback riding -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 300 block.
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1840-1850.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Recreation - P [P.9284]
Accession number P.9284