Adolph Menzel - horses and soldiers etc

 Salvete Omnes,

a quick illustrative post - on the equestrian etc themes within Adolph Menzel's works.

Adolph (1815-1905), knighted in 1898 as von Menzel, was a native to Prussian Silesia (born in Wroclaw, old seat of the Lower Silesia), and throughout the XIX century became the preeminent German and Prussian painter of the era in the German states and since 1871 the German Empire. 

Herr Adolph was skilled master in oils, gouache, drawing, printing, 

etchings and woodcuts.

enjoy

Valete

Diligence - traveling from Perpignan to Barcelona in 1820s

 Salvete Omnes,

Christmas is two weeks away, so we have got time to do a little time  travel with a certain young American to Spain in 1820s.

this young gentleman,  Alexander Slidell Mackenzie (1803-1848),  began his trip to Spain by taking a public transport aka  the stagecoach known also as a diligence (and  una  diligencia o  carruaje in Spain) from a southern French town of Perpignan , crossed into Spain and arrived at Barcelona.

in the volume I Mackenzie wrote the following about the French diligence horses and their traveling - they traveled at a 'slow and easy pace', the horses were 'heavy-headed' and 'thick-legged.'

Alexander S. Mackenzie published his travel books in London 1831 and in New York 1836. Nota bene Alexander was a father of Ronald Mackenzie, Civil War general and later a commanding cavalry officer in the Indian Wars.

More  equestrian  topics from  ''A Year in Spain" in the future.

Valete