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Lexington
- Engraved by Lauderbach from a drawing from life by E. Troye
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1882, from Every Horse Owner's Cyclopedia
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- image: 4 x 5 3/4
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- contemporary frame with archival mat
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The Thorough-bred Stallion Lexington
Engraved after Troye by Meeder-Chubb (Philip Meeder and F. Y. Chubb)
for the American Agriculturist for the Farm, Garden, and
Household, September 1871.
The image is accompanied by a history of the great racehorse,
which concludes, “Lexington was sold in 1856 to the late R.A.
Alexander, for $15,000, and is now owned by A.J. Alexander, Spring
St’n, Ky.”
Dimensions: 6 ½ inches by 7 ½ inches, image; 12 by 9 inches,
sheet.
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Mambrino Pilot
- Engraved by Lauderbach from a drawing from life by E. Troye
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1882, from Every Horse Owner's Cyclopedia
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- archival mat
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Troye, “the Painter of Thoroughbred Stories,” as Genevieve
Baird Lacer’s popular
book
rightly deems him, was born in Switzerland and came to the United
States in 1831. He proceeded to become the foremost mid-19th
century painter of horses in America. He painted horse portraits
in Virginia, South Carolina, Louisiana, Tennessee and Kentucky,
where he spent a number of years. He lived in Lexington and in
Georgetown, where he is buried.
His paintings were reproduced in the country’s first magazine
of sport, the “American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine.”
Engravings after Troye paintings served as frontispieces for the
periodical. These prints, executed by some of the best engravers
of the period, are quite rare.
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