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1860

8 – ‘The so-called “incapacitating vices,” which are the results of injury or of disease’

‘…when accompanying a gig on horseback never ride close behind the vehicle’. Original watercolour painting. The painting was used to produce a woodcut engraving for print in Mayhew’s ‘The Illustrated Horse Management’ (1864)…

This series contains original watercolours that were used to create woodcut engravings for publication in Chapter VII -‘The Faults inseparable from most present erections which are used as stables’ – of the 1864 Mayhew publication ‘The Illustrated Horse Management’.

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