Salvete Omnes,
The Godolphin Barb - foaled in 1724AD, died 1753.
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| detail from George Stubbs' painting |
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Showing posts with label George Stubbs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label George Stubbs. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Friday, December 30, 2022
Stubbs' 10th Dragoon Regiment
Salvete Omnes,
yesterday I posted about the embarkation of cavalry horses in the XVIII century Britain and a little about the British/English light dragoon regiments in the period right before their expedition to Flanders etc at the onset of the French Revolutionary Wars.
Today, I will take this opportunity to visit maestro George Stubbs' atelier where a little quite appropriate image can be found.
Namely, maestro George Stubbs was and still is a world-famous equestrian painter. As any visit to Wiki Commons, my favorite net galleries, will show that master George painted herds of horse and his work is just outstanding. And among his paintings there is one canvass painted in 1793 of the light dragoon figures.
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| Stubbs' painting of the Prince of Wales done circa 1791 - a splendid liver chestnut stallion |
According to a book in my home library - by Venetia Morrison - master painter was commissioned by the Prince of Wales to paint a canvass, eventually titled The Soldiers of the 10th Light Dragoons. (pages 102-105). Prince, later on His Royal Majesty George IV of Britain, was the Colonel Commandant of this regiment at the time.
Note that during the same year maestro Stubbs painted another horse related canvass for the Prince of Wales.
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| the colors of the uniform are odd, but the color of the horse and other details are more clearly visible |
Better photo of this painting on the 10th Hussars Regiment wiki page.
There is another interesting equestrian painting of the Prince, but of 1809AD and by a different painter, so we will save it for another day.
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Sunday, June 21, 2020
Grant's Monument
Salvete Omnes,
I just learned that the monument to our president Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was damaged and toppled by the rioting mobs of barbarians, ignorant products of US public education and the sworn enemies of beauty, harmony and Western society.
I have seen enough ignorance towards the art and beauty in America (just look at any statistics on how many people graduate the high school, youngsters without any art or history or culture schooling, and a large percentage those graduating have no reading or comprehension skills, no knowledge of history nor poetry nor aesthetics), but this is the newest low.
It is a very direct assault on the Anglo-Saxon or WASP-controlled America, and myself, being a Polish Slav look at this barbarity with revulsion while recalling how the Nazi Germans would destroy historic monuments and our cultural heritage in Poland 1939-45, how the Soviets would do the same destruction to our cultural heritage 1939-41, and again post 1945 in the greater Polish territories. Soviet Union rule over Poland ended in 1989 but Polish people still live in the shadow of this ruthless destruction, and falsification of our history and of culture and heritage.
Nota bene look at our ethnic Indo-European group name - Slav - and it is interesting that the word 'slave' comes from the word 'Slav' in the English language - eg etymology: slave comes from the ''Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus, from Sclāvus, Slav (from the widespread enslavement of captured Slavs in Europe and Middle East'' between VI century through XVII century).
So to lighten the spirit let us look at some of the pictures from the Wiki Commons gallery showing horses from the tremendously glorious, monumental and dynamic Grant's Memorial at the US capital.
The monument was created and executed by architect Edward Pearce Casey and sculptor Henry Merwin Shrady between 1902-22 (Shrady died two weeks - 12th April 1922- before the monument was unveiled on April 27, 1922 ). It may be of interst that maestro Shrady took many years of studying horses including dissecting them, like the famous horse painter from the XVIII century Britain -George Stubbs.
Valete
I just learned that the monument to our president Ulysses S. Grant in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was damaged and toppled by the rioting mobs of barbarians, ignorant products of US public education and the sworn enemies of beauty, harmony and Western society.
I have seen enough ignorance towards the art and beauty in America (just look at any statistics on how many people graduate the high school, youngsters without any art or history or culture schooling, and a large percentage those graduating have no reading or comprehension skills, no knowledge of history nor poetry nor aesthetics), but this is the newest low.
It is a very direct assault on the Anglo-Saxon or WASP-controlled America, and myself, being a Polish Slav look at this barbarity with revulsion while recalling how the Nazi Germans would destroy historic monuments and our cultural heritage in Poland 1939-45, how the Soviets would do the same destruction to our cultural heritage 1939-41, and again post 1945 in the greater Polish territories. Soviet Union rule over Poland ended in 1989 but Polish people still live in the shadow of this ruthless destruction, and falsification of our history and of culture and heritage.
Nota bene look at our ethnic Indo-European group name - Slav - and it is interesting that the word 'slave' comes from the word 'Slav' in the English language - eg etymology: slave comes from the ''Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus, from Sclāvus, Slav (from the widespread enslavement of captured Slavs in Europe and Middle East'' between VI century through XVII century).
So to lighten the spirit let us look at some of the pictures from the Wiki Commons gallery showing horses from the tremendously glorious, monumental and dynamic Grant's Memorial at the US capital.
The monument was created and executed by architect Edward Pearce Casey and sculptor Henry Merwin Shrady between 1902-22 (Shrady died two weeks - 12th April 1922- before the monument was unveiled on April 27, 1922 ). It may be of interst that maestro Shrady took many years of studying horses including dissecting them, like the famous horse painter from the XVIII century Britain -George Stubbs.
Valete
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Stubbs - The Anatomy of the Horse
Salvete omnes,
whenever I can I study the horse - conformation, anatomy, physiology, behavior etc, just name it. I can say I am lucky to have horses around. But with our technology and 'gadgetry' we can have a horse image & film or a book/article right there on our device, without having to go to a stable or pasture or slaughterhouse and definitely without smelling its certain smells.
More than 260 years ago one English artists did not mind the smells at all and he spent countless hours and years drawing horse carcases in order to learn equine anatomy.
Hence I would like to turn your attention to a set of splendid engravings that offer the first anatomically correct and esthetically fabulous study of horse anatomy. These anatomy engravings and drawings were executed singlehandedly by the English artist named George Stubbs, already a maestro of the equine art, and in these plates even today one can find help and guidance, and beauty.
In order to carry his task of doing the study of horse anatomy Stubbs rented a farmhouse in Horkstow in Licolnshire, as Venetia Morrison, author of The Art of George Stubbs, explains in here work (pages 21-45) - he would spent there 16 months of hard work, with 'carcasses in more than purified state.' would complete them around 1758, and additional 8 years to complete the plates as etchings etc and have the work published as The Anatomy of the Horse (1766).
I will quote directly the method as described by Ozias Humphrey, author of the Memoir written circa 1795 (the Picton Collection, Liverpool City Library), cited by Ms Morrison:
'The first subject wch[which] was procured was a horse wch was bled to death by the jugular vein - after wch the Arteries and veins were injected[with warm wax says Ms Morrison]. Then a bar of iron was suspended from the ceiling of the room, by a teagle [hook] of iron to wch iron hooks were fix'd - under this bar a plank was swung abt[about] 18 inches wide for the horses feet to rest upon - & the Horse was suspended to the bar of iron by the hooks above mentioned which were fastened into the opposite side of the Horse to that intended to be design'd, by passing the hooks to though the ribs & fastening them under the Back Bone - and by these means the Horse was fix'd in the attitude wch these prints represent and continued hanging in the posture six or seven weeks, or as long as they were fit for use - His drawings of a skeleton were previously made - and then the operations upon this fix'd subject were thus begun. He first began by dissecting & designing the muscle of the Abdomen - proceeding through five different lays of muscles until he came to peritoneum and the plura though wch appear'd the lungs & the intestines - after wch the Bowels were taken out & Cast away. - Then he proceeded to dissect the Head[..] and so he proceeded till he came to the Skeleton - it must be noted that by means of the Injection the Muscles. the Blood vessels, and the Nerves, retain'd their form to the last without undergoing any Change of position.
In this manner he advance his work by stripping off Skin and clearing and preparing as much of the subject as he concluded wou'd employ a whole day to prepare, design and describe, as above related till the whole subject was completed'
Ms Morrison writes (p22) that Stubbs must have read the Albinus ' Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani (1747), where Albinus explained his method
Valete
whenever I can I study the horse - conformation, anatomy, physiology, behavior etc, just name it. I can say I am lucky to have horses around. But with our technology and 'gadgetry' we can have a horse image & film or a book/article right there on our device, without having to go to a stable or pasture or slaughterhouse and definitely without smelling its certain smells.
Hence I would like to turn your attention to a set of splendid engravings that offer the first anatomically correct and esthetically fabulous study of horse anatomy. These anatomy engravings and drawings were executed singlehandedly by the English artist named George Stubbs, already a maestro of the equine art, and in these plates even today one can find help and guidance, and beauty.
In order to carry his task of doing the study of horse anatomy Stubbs rented a farmhouse in Horkstow in Licolnshire, as Venetia Morrison, author of The Art of George Stubbs, explains in here work (pages 21-45) - he would spent there 16 months of hard work, with 'carcasses in more than purified state.' would complete them around 1758, and additional 8 years to complete the plates as etchings etc and have the work published as The Anatomy of the Horse (1766).
I will quote directly the method as described by Ozias Humphrey, author of the Memoir written circa 1795 (the Picton Collection, Liverpool City Library), cited by Ms Morrison:
'The first subject wch[which] was procured was a horse wch was bled to death by the jugular vein - after wch the Arteries and veins were injected[with warm wax says Ms Morrison]. Then a bar of iron was suspended from the ceiling of the room, by a teagle [hook] of iron to wch iron hooks were fix'd - under this bar a plank was swung abt[about] 18 inches wide for the horses feet to rest upon - & the Horse was suspended to the bar of iron by the hooks above mentioned which were fastened into the opposite side of the Horse to that intended to be design'd, by passing the hooks to though the ribs & fastening them under the Back Bone - and by these means the Horse was fix'd in the attitude wch these prints represent and continued hanging in the posture six or seven weeks, or as long as they were fit for use - His drawings of a skeleton were previously made - and then the operations upon this fix'd subject were thus begun. He first began by dissecting & designing the muscle of the Abdomen - proceeding through five different lays of muscles until he came to peritoneum and the plura though wch appear'd the lungs & the intestines - after wch the Bowels were taken out & Cast away. - Then he proceeded to dissect the Head[..] and so he proceeded till he came to the Skeleton - it must be noted that by means of the Injection the Muscles. the Blood vessels, and the Nerves, retain'd their form to the last without undergoing any Change of position.
In this manner he advance his work by stripping off Skin and clearing and preparing as much of the subject as he concluded wou'd employ a whole day to prepare, design and describe, as above related till the whole subject was completed'
Valete
Sunday, February 26, 2017
an early Middle Pleistocene horse
Salve,
just a short link to an article already published in Nature from 2013.
It is a very interesting article on the origins of the modern equids - for this discovery of an early Middle Pleistocene horse in Canada, in permafrost, allows various scientists to study the ancient equids from inside out, especially to trace their genome sequence, including more support for the separation between the domesticated horse and Przewalski horse. Also this discovery shows that horse was domesticated within a narrow geographic area and with limited number of animals.
Another article on the subject, just in more descriptive manner.
Beautiful paintings by George Stubbs - via wiki Commons - showing dams (brood mares) and their foals.
enjoy
just a short link to an article already published in Nature from 2013.
It is a very interesting article on the origins of the modern equids - for this discovery of an early Middle Pleistocene horse in Canada, in permafrost, allows various scientists to study the ancient equids from inside out, especially to trace their genome sequence, including more support for the separation between the domesticated horse and Przewalski horse. Also this discovery shows that horse was domesticated within a narrow geographic area and with limited number of animals.
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| North American Pleistocene Horse by Philip Newsom(c) |
Another article on the subject, just in more descriptive manner.
Beautiful paintings by George Stubbs - via wiki Commons - showing dams (brood mares) and their foals.
enjoy
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