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Horseshoeing

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Images referencing Horseshoeing

6 images from works
  • Travellers visit the smith in his workshop to have their horses shod. Engraving by A.H. Payne after Ph. Wouwermans.
  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.
  • Two scenes of a farrier extracting a tooth from a male patient and a blacksmith extracting a tooth from a female patient. Etching after J. Harris the elder.
  • Saint Eligius: he reshoes the hoof of a horse by amputating the hock, shoeing the hoof, and reattaching the limb. Line engraving by "il Buono" (Floriano Dal Buono?).
  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint, 1792, after J. Harris the elder.
  • A naked man shoes a horse. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.

Works from the collections

35 works

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    Observations and discoveries made upon horses, with a new method of shoeing / [Translated by James Parsons?] by the Sieur La Fosse ; With copper-plates.

    | Étienne-Guillaume Lafosse | Date: 1755
    • Manuscripts

    Trait? de la nature.

    | Date: Late 17th century
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    A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.

    | Harris, John, the elder, -1834. | Reference: 16511i
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    Cursory account of the various methods of shoeing horses ... with incidental observations.

    | William Moorcroft | Date: 1800
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    Cursory account of the various methods of shoeing horses, hitherto practised with incidental observations. By William Moorcroft.

    | Moorcroft, William 1767-1825. | Date: 1800
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Related topics

Horses - Diseases
Veterinary Medicine
Horses
Horses - Anatomy
Dentist and patient
Veterinary surgery
Pain
Tooth Extraction
Hoof and Claw

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