"Utilitarian, By Eclipse." Advertising a horse for stud from Bremo Plantation, Fluvanna County, Virginia, with description of his 'useful qualities for the road," especially in light of the "scarcity of fine saddle horses in Virginia." The owner, John H. Cocke, assisted Thomas Jefferson in the development of the University of Virginia and served with Jefferson on the building committee. A reformer and an opponent of slavery, his diary notes the practice among slave-holding bachelors, of taking an enslaved female instead of a wife, adding that Jefferson's example gave license to all other men to indulge in "this damnable practice." Cocke designed and built Bremo Plantation, now a National Historic Landmark, leaving the estate to serve with distinction as a brigadier general in the war of 1812, and returning after the war to complete construction. Good clear impression, the paper slightly wavy, with foxing on the right edge. Scarce.Recent gold frame, approx. 21" x 15 1/2". Sight, approx. 16 3/4" x 11 1/4".