The Horse Fair – Vintage 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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A window into the past: The Horse Fair, preserved in this vintage poster. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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A color lithograph printed in Cleveland in 1885 reuses the composition of Rosa Bonheur's famous painting of a Paris horse market, turning it into an advertisement for a livestock feed, the H.T. Stock Food Co. Bonheur worked on the canvas in the early 1850s and showed it in Paris, where its crowded, lifelike scene of draft and saddle horses brought her wide acclaim. The poster is a billboard-sized sheet, and it shows how late nineteenth-century American businesses borrowed fine-art images to lend prestige to everyday products. The attribution to Bonheur comes from an old caption card and has not been independently verified.
| Created / published | Cleveland, : H.T. Stock Food Co., 1885. |
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| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 36 x 53 cm and 106 x 202 cm. |
| Notes | Published by W.J. Morgan & Co. Lith. Billboard size poster rolled in wooden crate. Gift of George W. Morgan. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: 1. Bonheur, Rosa, 1822-1899. I. Title. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 2,739 px · prints to 14 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175634 |
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