Horse Collection (page 19)

French Artillery - 12
A gunner of the horse artillery of the French Garde Royale stands clear of his Gribeauval cannon after setting light to the charge

French Artillery - 5
Two men of the horse artillery of the French Garde Royale service their Gribeauval cannon on the battlefield : the gun is moved with levers and cooled with water

French Artillery - 13
A gunner of the horse artillery of the French Garde Royale turns his ecouvillon in the muzzle of his Gribeauval cannon, ramming home the charge as hard as he can

Light Phaeton 1819
A light phaeton : the cover is an unusual feature

London Street Scene
Leadenhall Street, London, with wagon unloading goods, stage coach and horse bus, as well as passers-by

Soviet Cavalryman
A Soviet cavalryman shares a drink with his horse, at the Dneiper river

Brunhilde / Frankish Queen
Brunehaut, warrior-queen of Austrasia in Germany, mounted - astride, not side-saddle - on horseback and accompanied by a fierce dog

Race to Gretna / Newhouse
ONE MILE FROM GRETNA A couple desperate to marry race to Gretna Green in a four horse open top carriage but are pursued by those who wish to stop them

Pyrrhus fighting the Romans at Beneventum
Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, fighting the Romans, led by the consul Manius Curius Dentatus, at the Battle of Beneventum, near Benevento in southern Italy

Carriage to Hammersmith
A coachman drives two horses pulling a carriage away for hamersmith (sic) in this scene (presumably) from Ed Finch, his Perambulations

London Horse Bus 1905
A London horse bus - Hammersmith to Kings Cross

Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth by David Wright, showing a woman in a glamorous dressing gown holding a stocking in her hands; a reference to the lack of silk of nylon stocking during war

The relief at Ekowe
Lord Chelmsford(1827-1905) riding out to meet Colonel E.K Pearson(1834-1909) about a mile from Fort Ekowe, with troops following

Britain / Cartoon / Reform
A horse with the head of Disraeli takes A Leap in the Dark, in Punchs satire on the Reform Bill

Louis Napoleon / Disderi
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON PRINCE IMPERIAL as a boy, on his rocking horse

Loading Churns at Farm
Loading milk churns onto a horse-drawn milk cart at a dairy farm : the cart will go from house to house, filling cans or jugs from the churns

Feeding the Horse Team

Hastings / Pier 1892
Hastings, Sussex: the pier on a quiet day

British Postman in Snow
Snow does not deter this country postman making his deliveries with a horse- carriage

Jockey / Charlie Smirke
Charlie Smirke, jockey, in the colours of the Aga Khan

Jockey / J a Taylor 20C
J A Taylor, jockey, in the colours of Mr WH Thorpe

Jockey / Joseph Marshall
Joseph Marshall, jockey, in the colours of Mrs C Rich

Jockey / Tommy Lowrey 20C
Tommy Lowrey, jockey, in the colours of Major JS Courtauld

Black Beauty Book / C19Th
Front cover of early edition

ASCOT 1866
The betting ring on the Ascot racecourse

Coaching Meet in Hyde Pk
The Coaching Revival : Sir Henry Meysey Thompson, General Dickson and Lord Hothfield with their four-in-hand coaches in Hyde Park - a fashionable social event

Circus / Rider & Hoop
Piebald (black and white) Circus horse carrying an equestrienne who jumps through a paper-filled hoop held up by a clown

Pulcinello & Velocipede
Toy representing Pulchinello riding a velocipede

German Horse Tram C1880
Two horses draw a tram along a German street, while a bicyclist waves his cap and a balloon soars overhead

Pickfords Dray 1862
A dray belonging to Pickfords company delivers the goods

Camels and Iron Horse
NORTH AFRICA : flesh-and-blood camels are alarmed by the iron horse

Stalking Horse
A wildfowler, knowing that birds are less frightened of horses than of humans, conceals himself behind a wooden horse

Stalking Horse Used
Shooting wildfowl with the aid of a stalking horse

German Deer Hunt C16
A German nobleman hunts the deer - he is on a horse, his servants are on foot, with a bunch of ferocious-looking dogs

Troublesome Youngsters
Young and inexperienced racehorses prove a handful for their jockeys before the start

PIANO-TYPE FIRE ENGINE
Piano type manual fire-engine, named after a resemblance of the shape of the bodywork to that instrument. Nozzles and branch-pipes were carried on brackets on the main frame

Ridinger Haute Ecole 14
Haute Ecole : Trotting the horse in a circle by means of a cord attached to the bridle

Horsemen 3 - Thessalonia
THESSALONIANS : renowned for their horse-breeding and their equestrian skills, these people of eastern Greece are depicted here defending their country against the Romans

Horsemen 1 - Centaurs
CENTAURS : these legendary creatures of Greek mythology combine the attributes of horse and man. Whether they eat human food or subsist on oats is not recorded

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

Farming in Middle Ages
A farming scene in the middle ages (allegedly England, but more likely Germany) showing a farmer with a horse-drawn plough carving up his field, a watermill and cattle

Rocking Horses Mouth
A brother and sister look it in the mouth

Horse Market Sweden
The horse market at Lund, Sweden

Lock on the River Thames
A lock on the Thames is opened by a man and small child to let through an approaching barge pulled by a horse on the river bank

Remington / Cowboys Lasso
Cowboys roping with lassos in a horse-corral

Remington / Cowboyexplore
An exploring outfit - two cowboys on horseback with a spare horse to carry extra supplies

Crossing St Bernard
NAPOLEON I crossing the Saint-Bernard pass through the Alps, 1800

Rocking Horse Policeman
Little Margaret rides through the streets on her rocking horse, and meets a policeman

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