Vaclav Hollar - carriages

 Salvete Omnes,
October is our new 2024 month, and it should be glorious and full of shinning leaves and color.

But we have a new escalation of open warfare in the Middle East - my prayers are with the poor and defenseless civilian population of Lebanon and Holy Land, with Iran, Iraq, Syria Yemen and Jordan perhaps also affected... what a disaster

.. Ad rem, yet again we shall revisit 1630-60s in the continental Europe - and again with our Czech master Vaclav Hollar.
let us enjoy the sumptuous, multi-horses carriages of the nobility as shown in maestro Hollar's prints.

nice group of horse trumpeters on the right

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England -

enjoy 

Valete

Alfred Steinacker

 Salvete Omnes,

Alfred Steinacker - born in Hungary in 1838, died in Vienna in 1914 - was a master of the genre painting during the long Austro-Hungarian 'century.' 
Puszta (articles on the puszta steppe  - eg  this one or this one) , csikos , wagons, 'banderia,'  and horses from this Austro-Hungarian master:

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Friedrich Gauermann - mid-XIX century Austrian peasants and their horses

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick entry: this portfolio is  full of colorful pictures of the  Alpine peasant life of the Austrian Crown lands -  Friedrich Gauermann (1807- 1862).

son of Jacob (painter from Württemberg, who eventually settled in Austrian Empire, where he died in 1843)

Friedrich's paintings: 

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and the last scene - not unlike American frontier's scene - just mountain folks trying their carbines and muskets, with a wagon in a background.

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Mustang & Indian Pony - Sketch of the Development of the Modern Horse

 Salvete Omnes,

Wild horses of America as described in F.S. Colley's book titled Sketch of the Development of the Modern Horse (Maine 1906)

mustangs:

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. and a few modern photos from Wiki Commons

enjoy 

Valete