The Horse Trustee
Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Black and white print; a broadside announcing that the race horse,Trustee, would stand for mares during the present season at a particular stable. A small view of a man holding the reins of a horse is above the text giving the details of the horse's pedigree and performance.
- Description
- A black and white print of a man holding the reins of a black stallion in a meadow. The broadside announces Trustee will stand for mares.
- Trustee was foaled in 1837 from Trustee and Fanny Pollen, a distant mare of Messenger. Trustee’s pedigree is significant because it represents a shift from the traditional method of breeding running stallions to trotting mares to the newer method of breeding proven trotting champions together. He was famous for trotting 20 miles in 35.5 minutes in 1848.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Harry T. Peters "America on Stone" Lithography Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 1849
- ID Number
- DL.60.3597
- catalog number
- 60.3597
- printer
- Bell, Jared W.
- Object Name
- wood engraving
- Object Type
- Woodcut
- Measurements
- image: 79.5866 cm x 43.18 cm; 31 5/16 in x 17 in
- place made
- United States: New York, New York City
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
- Clothing & Accessories
- Advertising
- Art
- Peters Prints
- Domestic Furnishings
- Horses
- Subject
- Expositions and Fairs
- Chronology: 1840-1849
- Communication, broadsides
- depicted
- Horses
- referenced
- Horse Racing
- Record ID
- nmah_325808
