Specialist in equine hoof care, including the trimming and balancing of horses' hooves and the placing of shoes on their hooves

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Travellers visit the smith in his workshop to have their horses shod. Engraving by A.H. Payne after Ph. Wouwermans.

A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.

A farrier at Saint-Denis is talking to a countryman as he shoes his horse; people are about to set off for Paris in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured etching by R.B Peake and aquatint by R. Havell.

Instructions for the use of Farriers...1796.

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?).

Dr. to John W. Skins, shoeing and general smith, Metheringham : all kinds of agricultural implements repaired.

Saint Antony the hermit, Saint Eligius and Saint Sebastian. Coloured aquatint, 1853, after H. Leu the elder.

A farrier extracting a tooth from a man's mouth. Oil painting by a follower of D. Teniers II.

A blacksmith fixing a shoe on a horse with the help of another man. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

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Horseshoers

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A blacksmith fixing a shoe on a horse with the help of another man. Watercolour by an Indian painter.

A veterinary surgeon and a blacksmith attacking dandies on velocipedes, in an attempt to preserve the use of horses as a means of transport, and therefore securing their own trades. Coloured etching by C. Williams, 1819.

A farrier extracting a tooth from a man's mouth. Oil painting by a follower of D. Teniers II.

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?).

Travellers visit the smith in his workshop to have their horses shod. Engraving by A.H. Payne after Ph. Wouwermans.