John Ennis: the celebrated pedestrian – 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: John Ennis: the celebrated pedestrian, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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John Ennis: the celebrated pedestrian
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This hand-colored lithograph singles out John Ennis, a pedestrian, or professional long-distance walker, whose name was well known to sporting audiences in the late 1870s. Walking feats of that era, often staged as multi-day matches with large wagers, drew enormous crowds and newspaper coverage, and Currier & Ives produced portraits of popular athletes for a public eager to follow them. The print was issued by Currier & Ives in New York around 1879, and it is cataloged in the firm's standard raisonné, which makes it a useful record of how the company marketed sporting celebrities.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1879. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3527 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,044 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174817 |
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