Collection Highlights
Dr. John Cheesman and Family with Guests: Silhouette
1840
Z.2567
Black prepared paper cut-outs, laid on beige paper with graphite, brown ink and wash, and white gouache, laid on canvas
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Jerome Park Steeple Chase
Title
Jerome Park Steeple Chase
Date
ca. 1885
Medium
Cardboard, wood, paper
Dimensions
board: 24 1/2 x 13 5/8 in. ( 62.2 x 34.6 cm )
box: 1 3/4 x 14 5/8 x 9 3/8 in. ( 4.4 x 37.1 x 23.8 cm )
Description
"Jerome Park Steeple Chase" board game in a paper covered cardboard and wood box with four chromolithographed horse and jockey playing pieces in wooden stands; board (folds in four) with an oval race track with numbers around the edges an traps at six intervals, image of three men on horseback at the bottom of the oval, men jumping traps in medallions in the corners; directions lithographed in the center of the track; box cover cromolithographed with a pack of four men on horses jumping a fence, one being thrown, one fallen; box cover inscribed, "JEROME PARK/ Steeple-Chase/ McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS, NEW-YORK."
Credit Line
The Liman Collection
Object Number
2000.311
Marks
lithographed: on the box cover: "JEROME PARK/ Steeple-Chase/ McLOUGHLIN BROTHERS, NEW-YORK."
Gallery Label
Located in the Fordham section of the Bronx, the fashionable and luxurious Jerome Park Racetrack staged thoroughbred horse races from 1866 to 1889.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
