Rearing Collection

At the Front - World War One recruitment poster
Recruitment poster during World War I featuring a dramatic picture of horses pulling guns rearing up in fright at a shell explosion just a few feet away

George Stubbs (1724-1806). Whistlejacket (c. 1762)
George Stubbs (1724-1806). English painter. Whistlejacket (c. 1762). Oil on Canvas. National Gallery. London. England. UK

Lords Cricket Ground as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch and pavilion of Lords Cricket Ground, during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

WW1 - Lords Cricket Ground used as a Goose Farm, 1915
Photograph showing the pitch of the Marylebone Cricket Ground (Lord s), during the grounds use as a farm for rearing geese in World War I

PRAXITELES (flourished 370, -330 BC). Hermes bearing the infant Dionysus. ca. 330 BC. Hermes carrying the child Dionysus to the nymphs who were charged with his rearing. Classical Greek art

Peter the Great, Equestrian Statue, St Petersburg
View of the equestrian statue to Peter the Great (1672 - 1725) in St Petersburg, Russia. Known as the Bronze Horseman, it was installed in 1782

16th Century Cavalry
A young man in the suite of the emperor Carl V : his horse is partially armoured, and both rider and mount are heavily ornamented as befits an imperial courtier

Mellins Food Advert
Advertisement for Mellins baby food featuring a unique testimonial from the Empress of Germany who has reared all six of her princely sons on the concoction!

Horse & Arab Rider C1905
An Arab in the desert on his rearing horse

Comic postcard, Girl riding donkey on beach Date: 20th century

Thunderstorm
An etching of some muscular horses, travelling a country road during a violent thunderstorm. The middle horse is rearing, causing some trouble for the man leading him. Date: circa 1921

Il Valor Vincitore
A painting depicting a violent scene of battle, involving warriors with horned helmets and shields swathed in fired arrows, upon a chariot led by powerful, rearing warhorses

Swayne's apparatus for rearing silk worms, and a silk loom Date: 19th century

Disparate 10
An etching from Goya's Los Disparates series of artworks (The Follies). This example shows a rearing horse, biting the garment of a flailing man in a barren landscape. Date: circa 1816-1823

Commonwealth Oxygen & Accessories Ltd Advert
An advertisement photograph showing a gentleman stood beside a large sculpture of rearing horses, used to promote Comox, (Oxy Acetylene) welding to sculpture

Minnie Thompson, Dallas cowgirl in New York
Minnie Thompson from Dallas, Texas, performs horse riding feats outside the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park, New York. She had won many prizes as a trainer of unbroken horses. Date: 1910

Gentleman being attacked by naughty children in a parlour. He says, They are really charming. He thinks, They are out of control

Electric cab causing consternation in a Paris street 1899
Electric cab causing consternation in a Paris street. Date: 1899

Spanish bullfighting - driving bulls
Spanish bullfighting - 2 - driving bulls

Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales - The Squire
The Squire on a rearing horse Date: First published: circa 1387

Paris, France - La Place des Victoires with central statue of Louis XIV on horseback Date: circa 1904

The Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior. Bronze. 16th century
The Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior. 16th century. Bronze. Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Italian Renaissance polymath. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary

Hartmann von Aue, German poet
Hartmann von Aue, leading poet of the Middle High German period. He also took part in the Crusade of 1196-97. Date: c 1170 - c 1210

Lieutenant Mike Rimmington training horses for the army, WW1
A Borstal for Bucephalus: Lt. Mike Rimmington taming unruly steeds for the war effort. Here, he artfully remains in the saddle as a horse rears up wildly

Christina of Sweden (1626-1689). Christina of Sweden on horseback. 1653-1654. Portrait by Sebastien Bourdon. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

Branding horses at the Army Remount Depot, WW1
A horse strongly objecting to being branded at an Army Remount Depot during the First World War. Date: 1915

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). The hind-quarters of a rearin
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Artist, architect, sculptor and engineer Italian. The hind-quarters of a rearing horse (1503-1504). Royal Library of Windsor. England. United Kingdom

Charles II on horseback. Luca Giordano
Charles II (1661-1700). King of Spain. Charles II on horseback. Portrait by Luca Giordano. Prado Museum. Madrid. Spain

12th century military dress: standard bearer and horse
Richard Fitzhugh, Standard Bearer of England on his horse holding a flag and a shield. Date: 1141

Western Canada - Cowboy saddling an outlaw or rogue horse. Date: 1928

Buenos Aires - Plaza San Martin
Plaza San Martin - a park located in the Retiro neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The equestrian Monument to Jose de San Mart� (the plaza namesake) can be seen in the middle distance

Silhouette of two carts meeting head-on
Silhouette of carts with Dutch drivers, meeting head-on. The cart on the left has geese in the back

Asian / Indian Elephant - baby (Elephas maximus)

Hagenbecks Great Zoological Show at Olympia, London
The Christmas Holiday Season - among the birds and beast at Olympia, London - Hagenbecks Great Zoological Show - which featured a full circus show and zoo. Date: 1914

Bear believed responsible for 1937yeti footprints on Everest
A page from the Illustrated London News in 1937, entitled The abominable snowman unmasked, reporting on confirmation that suspected yeti footprints discovered in the Himalayas were in fact those of

British troops bringing in a German battery under fire, WW1
British troops bringing in a German battery under fire, by B Hall

Entraining artillery horses for France, WW1
An artillery horse showing its displeasure at being coaxed onto a train to France in 1915. Date: 1915

Accustoming a horse to traffic before the Coronation
A mounted policeman accustoming an inexperienced horse to London traffic conditions rior to the Coronation procession of 12 May 1937. Date: 1937

Scorchers Progress - Whitehall - Errant city cyclist
The Scorchers Progress IV - Whitehall, London - An errant city cyclist causing havoc with his fellow road-users. Here horses rear in alarm, throwing their riders as the cyclist approaches at speed

Scorchers Progress - Trafalgar Square - Errant city cyclist
The Scorchers Progress III - " Twas in Trafalgar Square" - London - An errant city cyclist causing havoc with his fellow road-users

Campino - Portuguese Bull tender
The Campinos are the men who tend the wild bulls reared for the bullfights. Date: 1930s

La premiere extravagance. Buying the cradle

The dangers that The Royal Army Services Corps faced 1915
This scene depicts the difficulties and dangers of shell fire, for The Royal Army Services Corps (RASC), when trying to get supplies of food, water and clothing to the front. 1915

Algerian soldier on horseback
An Algerian soldier (known as Spahis), member of a light cavalry regiment of the French Army, recruited from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Date: circa 1920s

Advertisement for Agricultural Shows via LNER
Silhouette advertisement for Agricultural Shows via LNER (London & North Eastern Railway), showing a man holding a rearing horse by its harness, with a marquee in the background. 1929

Starter caught at the Tote
The Starter who was Caught at the Tote by Patrick Bellew. The massed ranks of punters, jockeys, policeman and even a horse react with undiluted horror at the sight of the race starter placing a bet

Buffalo and hunter on horseback, Sri Lanka
Charge in High Reeds -- a buffalo emerging from reeds confronts a hunter on horseback in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). 1854

Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1712-1775) Date: circa 1740

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