J.G. Pforr - more peasant horses & car-stake or stake-brace

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just for the beauty and enjoyment - works of Johann G. Pforr

the wagon images demonstrate  the use of car-stake or stake-brace*

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the car-stakes[1] seemed to have been an eastern European invention 

[1] lusnia[ luśnia ] in Polish - in Polish Wikipedia,  and  klonica[kłonica]  which holds the ladders in place - - see the description in  Polish Wikipedia. 
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and a horse market scene somewhere in Saxony? - 

* Laszlo Tarr, The History of the Carriage, New York, 1969, page 175  & two plates XLII & XLIII.

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German horses of Friesland & Holstein - J.G. Pforr

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a cavesson on this stallion

 German horses were considered by many cavalrymen of the XVIII century as the most useful - eg in his famous work, Mes Reveries ,  one of the most skilled commanders of the era Mareshal de Saxe mentioned German horse in his military experience during the Polish campaigning.

a curb-bit and two-rein military bridle, Roman nose profile

Johann Georg Pforr drew just that - two powerful German horse (German as the entire territory of the Holy Roman Empire), one from Friesland and one from Holstein.

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since the English of the era had a very weak cavalry and were oriented in breeding racing horse, a hunter and draft one

.German horses, bred with Spanish, Turkish, Barbs & Neapolitans were used in dressage, eg Cavendish talks about them in his famous equestrian work.

But from the military point of view we have more precise remarks  about thee horse written by general de Warnery - who said, that 
'[...]In a course of 600 paces, a good German horse, in condition, will gt before a Polish, Tatar, or other horse of that description: but if the course is continued  to a greater distance, the latter will regain its ground, leave the other behind, and continue in wind for a much longer time: and should the heavy horse be forced a little beyond his wind, he becomes insensible to the bit and spur, and loses all his activity, which is the reason that cuirassiers are never employed on any other occasion  than a regular battle[..]. 

to be continued .. 

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Tethart P. C. Haag & horses in brush and pencil

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Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, princess of Orange

let us trot to the empirical century aka the Age of Enlightenment and their horses as seen and painted by one Dutch artists - Tethart Philipp  Christian Haag (1737-1812), painter to the rich and famous of the era.

Willem or William of Orange, husband to Frederica Wilhelmina  

                                                                                                 a riding school - 

                                                                                            Portraits of horses

English blood horse, a flat saddle with surcingle

Arabian horse

more military - 

Mr Haag's brushwork enjoys popularity at the auction block - eg  this painting below has been sold at Sotheby's 

another one was sold at Sotheby's - can be seen via  Invaluable auction portal.. 

a chestnut horse and a soldier - a detail from the above painting

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Battle horse - fury, death & wounds - van der Meulen

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more horses by the Flemish artist  Adam Frans van der Meulen - in the theme of war and death and wounds. - 

and some detailed close-ups of war horses in fury and death  'corralled' from the artist's  wiki commons gallery - 

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English horses by Thomas Spencer

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short entry:
two fabulous horses painted by the equestrian painter from Great Britain - Thomas Spencer - 1700-1753, who was the 'pre-George Stubbs' epoch painter.
A Grey Hunter held by a Groom, 1751
 
Scipio, a spotted Hunter, property of Colonel Roche , 1750


 some interesting

detail from Scipio

And from the Sportsman's Dictionary (London AD 1744) comes a page with various saddles and seats described


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