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Clear the Track!
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Samuel Sartain, Christian Schussele, and others

Clear the Track!

1853

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Clear the Track!

1853

Physical Qualities Mezzotint, roulette, mattoir, and etching, Sheet: 839 x 637 mm. (83.9 x 63.7 cm.) Image: 587 x 465 mm. (58.7 x 46.5 cm.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1984.81.2557
Art Union's blind stamp BC, below image: female figure with vases. Same as 1984.81.436 and 1984.81.2829-2834. W.S.B. No. 9.
James L. Claghorn, sold to T. Harrison Garrett, 1885

Inscribed: RECTO: In plate, LL below image: 'PAINTED BY C. SCHUESSELE, PHIL.A 1852.'; in plate, LR below image: 'ENGRAVED BY SAMUEL SARTAIN. PHIL.A 1854.'; in plate, Lower C: 'CLEAR THE TRACK! / ENGRAVED FOR PRESENTATION TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO THE ART UNION OF PHILA FOR 1854. / From the Original Picture in the Posession of James L. Claghorn Esq.r Philad.a / Entered according to act of Congress by J.L. Claghorn in the year 1854 in the Clerks office of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.'; LR in plate: 'Printed by Ja.s Irwin'; BR Corner (pencil): 'Sartain, S'.

Artist

Samuel Sartain

1829–1905

American, 1830-1906
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Artist

Christian Schussele

1823–1878

American, born France, 1824-1879
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Printer

James Irwin

2000–2000

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