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 ALLEN, W.S. Vanderbilt
Coach of Colonel William Jay
New York: Henry T. Thomas, 1893. Heliotype. Very good condition apart from some light soiling and minor foxing in the margins. Image size (including text): 16 1/8 x 19 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 17 3/4 x 22 5/8 inches.
A fine plate depicting Colonel William Jay's carriage at the May 27, 1893 meeting of the New York Coaching Club, from the nineteenth-century publication 'Sporting Incidents'.
The stylish sport of coaching was first introduced to America from England during the 1870s. In 1875, William Jay and Colonel Delancey Astor Kane founded the New York Coaching Club, which made its inaugural trip from the Hotel Brunswick in New York to Pelham the next year. The organization was extremely successful, and their regular excursions to various towns in Westchester quickly became a popular public spectacle. Over the next several years, the number of private carriages in New York dramatically increased, so much so that "the annual meet and parade of the Coaching Club [became]...a conspicuous metropolitan event." (Steele)
Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and accompanied by H. Milford Steele's eloquent descriptions of the history and status of these activities. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and steeple chasing. In its introduction, Colonel William Jay, a founding member of the Coaching Club, extolled the beneficial effect such activities had on the health, behaviour, and moral character of both participants and spectators and explained that the "aim of the artist in this book has been to reproduce such horses and carriages with such details of their equipment as may be useful as hints to those who need them, at the same time furnishing a standard of correctness in such matters."
#12657 $1,200.00  
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 ALLEN, W.S. Vanderbilt
Pony Race for Polo Ponies
New York: Henry T. Thomas, 1893. Heliotype. Very good condition apart from some minor soiling in the margins, a few small losses in the top right and left corners, and slight discolouration of the paper due to age. Image size (including text): 16 1/8 x 19 5/8 inches. Sheet size: 17 3/8 x 22 1/2 inches.
A fine plate depicting the fourth of six races run at the Hempstead Farms on October 19, 1893, from the nineteenth-century publication 'Sporting Incidents'.
Introduced to America by the British settlers, horse racing has been a popular spectator sport since the mid-seventeeth century. "Pony-racing, particularly, has taken a firm hold upon the fancy of its followers, and, under the wise and sportsmanlike influence of the American Hunt and Pony Racing Association, the popularity of this form of sport has steadily increased." (Steele)
Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and accompanied by H. Milford Steele's eloquent descriptions of the history and status of these activities. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and steeple chasing. In its introduction, Colonel William Jay, a founding member of the Coaching Club, extolled the beneficial effect such activities had on the health, behaviour, and moral character of both participants and spectators and explained that the "aim of the artist in this book has been to reproduce such horses and carriages with such details of their equipment as may be useful as hints to those who need them, at the same time furnishing a standard of correctness in such matters."
#12679$900.00
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 ALLEN, W.S. Vanderbilt
Road Coach Comet
New York: Henry T. Thomas, 1893. Heliotype. Very good condition apart from some light soiling and minor foxing in the margins. Image size (including text): 16 x 19 5/8 inches. Sheet size: 17 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches.
A fine plate depicting from the nineteenth-century publication 'Sporting Incidents'.
The stylish sport of coaching was first introduced to America from England during the 1870s. In 1875, William Jay and Colonel Delancey Astor Kane founded the New York Coaching Club, which made its inaugural trip from the Hotel Brunswick in New York to Pelham the next year. The organization was extremely successful, and their regular excursions to various towns in Westchester quickly became a popular public spectacle. Over the next several years, the number of private carriages in New York dramatically increased, so much so that "the annual meet and parade of the Coaching Club [became]...a conspicuous metropolitan event." (Steele)
Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and accompanied by H. Milford Steele's eloquent descriptions of the history and status of these activities. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and steeple chasing. In its introduction, Colonel William Jay, a founding member of the Coaching Club, extolled the beneficial effect such activities had on the health, behaviour, and moral character of both participants and spectators and explained that the "aim of the artist in this book has been to reproduce such horses and carriages with such details of their equipment as may be useful as hints to those who need them, at the same time furnishing a standard of correctness in such matters."
#12666$600.00
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 ALLEN, W.S. Vanderbilt
Tandem Shooting Cart
New York: Henry T. Thomas, 1893. Heliotype. Very good condition apart from a mild crease in the lower right corner, some light soiling, and minor foxing in the margins. A few small losses in the top right corner of the sheet. Image size (including text): 15 7/8 x 19 1/2 inches. Sheet size: 17 3/4 x 22 5/8 inches.
A fine plate depicting Mr. Oliver H.P. Belmont's four-wheeled trap at Bellevue Avenue, Newport in August 1892, from the nineteenth-century publication 'Sporting Incidents'.
Originally developed as a means of transport during the early days of fox hunting, tandem driving soon became a popular sport in its own right. It is a potentially dangerous sport that requires great skill, alertness and coordination in guiding a team of horses harnessed in procession to pull the cart in synchronicity. Steele explains that it is this challenge and the exhilarating element of risk involved that attracted many to the sport and led to the organization of many tandem clubs in late nineteenth-century America.
Published during America's Gilded Age, 'Sporting Incidents' is a portfolio of elaborate illustrations depicting equine sporting events and accompanied by H. Milford Steele's eloquent descriptions of the history and status of these activities. It was primarily intended to glorify the increasingly fashionable sports of coaching, hunting, polo and steeple chasing. In its introduction, Colonel William Jay, a founding member of the Coaching Club, extolled the beneficial effect such activities had on the health, behaviour, and moral character of both participants and spectators and explained that the "aim of the artist in this book has been to reproduce such horses and carriages with such details of their equipment as may be useful as hints to those who need them, at the same time furnishing a standard of correctness in such matters."
#12671$600.00
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