Our national winter exercise - skating – Antique 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 rare antique engraving captures Our national winter exercise - skating in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Our national winter exercise - skating
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Rather than a scene of a particular rink or pond, this wood engraving presents skating as a general emblem of the American winter, which is how its title, "Our National Winter Exercise," frames it. It ran in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper on January 13, 1866, one of the weekly illustrated papers that turned wood engravings into the main way many readers saw current life. Skating was a popular pastime in the mid-nineteenth century, enjoyed on frozen ponds, canals and city rinks by people of many ages, and images like this one helped shape the sense of winter leisure as a shared national custom.
| Created / published | 1866 Jan. 13. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1860-1870.Wood engravings 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1866 Jan. 13, p. 265. |
| Subjects | Ice skating--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,055 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-162533 |
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