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Exhibition History“American Folk Art: Collection from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France, January 25, 2001 – March 24, 2001.
Artist
Unidentified Artist
(American)
Jumping Horse
Date1850-1855
MediumSheet iron
DimensionsOverall: 22 3/4 × 27 3/8 in. (57.8 × 69.5 cm)
Object numberN0230.1979
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Bequest of Effie Thixton Arthur
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextWeathervanes of horses, like the others in this group, were designed and produced in the mid- and late- 19th century when the rise in popularity of horse breeding, driving, and racing coincided with the development of the commercial weathervane industry. Alvin Jewell, of Waltham, Massachusetts, was one of the pioneers of manufactured weathervanes. He offered this pattern in gilded copper beginning in the 1850s. His patterns were continued by L.W. Cushing and Stillman White. This weathervane is a sheet-metal copy of Jewell's weathervane by an anonymous metalworker.Exhibition History“American Folk Art: Collection from the Fenimore Art Museum,” Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris, France, January 25, 2001 – March 24, 2001.
On View
Not on viewc. 1878-1900
