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In 1875, just years after von Wagner first exhibited his chariot race painting in Vienna, American artists Stephen Ferris and Peter Moran made an etching after von Wagner’s earliest version of the painting, entitled The Roman Chariot Race, popularizing the piece here in the United States and contributing to its evolving cultural impact. Ferris and Moran’s original copper-plate etching — itself renowned as the largest ever made up to that time in America —is on display in the show, on loan from the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Small-scale editions of the painting soon appeared everywhere, reproduced in everything from fine art journals to small Midwestern newspapers by the 1880s and even on the back of “Silent Movie Souvenir” playing cards in 1916 (examples of which appear in the exhibition as well).