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The horse motif was the first image to be engraved. Later, vertical lines are overlain across the body and in front of the horse. The overall effect creates an impression of a palisade, fence or even falling spears. If this is the case, we might be seeing a scene in which horses are guided by a wooden structure—maybe for hunting purposes.
William Wallace Denslow's illustrations for a variant of Ride a cock horse, from a 1901 edition of Mother Goose. A hobby horse (or hobby-horse) is a child's toy horse. Children played at riding a wooden hobby horse made of a straight stick with a small horse's head (of wood or stuffed fabric), and perhaps reins, attached to one end.
The Mari Lwyd was utilised by the artist Clive Hicks-Jenkins in a series of drawings from around 2000 that focused on a metamorphosing horse/man as a nightmarish harbinger of his father's death. [74] Catriona Urquhart wrote a sequence of poems titled The Mare's Tale which were published alongside Hicks-Jenkins' images in 2001. [ 75 ]
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Head of the horse of Selene, which inspired Fiddian-Green, with the Elgin Marbles in the British Museum. Born in Ireland, [3] Fiddian-Green was educated at Eton College.Later, as a foundation-course student at Chelsea College of Arts he was sent on a visit to the British Museum to seek inspiration, [2] and chanced upon a carving of horse's head, the horse of Selene, [4] in the Elgin Marbles ...
Chufin cave (Spain) – small cave with engravings, stick figures, and artwork schematically portraying red deer, goats and cattle. Côa Valley (Portugal) – artists engraved thousands of drawings of horses and other animal, human and abstract figures in open-air artwork completed 22,000 to 10,000 years ago.
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This is a category for all horse tack that may be placed primarily on a horse's head, used for a variety of purposes, including control, restraint, or safety. This includes items such bridles, hackamores, and halters, as well as accessories such as martingales, which act primarily on the head. This category does not include veterinary equipment.