Charles Rowell: The celebrated pedestrian – Antique Print
![Charles Rowell: The celebrated pedestrian, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/63/63bdcc8f464a-L.webp)
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Charles Rowell: The celebrated pedestrian. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Charles Rowell: The celebrated pedestrian
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Charles Rowell, an English professional pedestrian, appears here as a full-length figure in a hand-colored lithograph, a form that lets the viewer see both the athlete's stance and the costume of a long-distance walker. Rowell's name was tied to the endurance walking contests that drew large crowds in Britain and the United States during the late 1870s, when pedestrianism was one of the most popular spectator sports. Currier & Ives, the New York firm known for inexpensive prints on everyday subjects, issued this sheet in 1879, and it is catalogued as number 1103 in the firm's standard reference. The print offers a useful view of how celebrity athletes were presented to the public before photographs of sports figures became common.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1879. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1103. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,030 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174210 |
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