Washington Course, Charleston, S.C. – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique engraving of Washington Course, Charleston, S.C. brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Washington Course, Charleston, S.C.
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Washington Course, a racing ground in Charleston, South Carolina, is the subject here, shown in an engraving made for Beaufain Irving's 1857 book *The South Carolina Jockey*. H. Bosse engraved the image from a daguerreotype by B.Y. Glen, so it records a scene first captured by early photography and then translated into an engraving, since printing presses of the period could not reproduce photographs directly. Horse racing was a prominent pastime among Charleston's planter and sporting society before the Civil War, and a book on the turf like this one documents that culture. The image is worth noticing for its layering of technologies: a camera image turned into an engraved plate for print.
| Created / published | 1857 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Subjects | Engraving by H. Bosse after a daguerreotype by B.Y. Glen. Illus. in: Beaufain Irving, The South Carolina Jockey, Charelston, 1857. No reference copy. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; A/P/P Index; RBD; BI--WORKS; SC--Charleston; Horse racing--Misc.--1857; Geogr.; Publ. Ind. (2); Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,197 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-146364 |
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