Building a Future for Horses out of the Past
George Finch Mason, known as Finch Mason, was born into an educated family his father taught at Eton and his son also attended the school 1860-64. Finch Mason contributed to Punch, and was also a humorist. He work beautifully describes the world he lived in and his talent clear. He paints some of the most
Read More ...John Leech 1817-1864, was born in London on 29th August. He was educated at Charterhouse, and was set to study medicine. Luckily of rus his artistic talents got the better of him and he swapped the surgeon’s knife for the brush and pen. His output showed extraordinary energy; he completed over 3000 drawings and cartoons
Read More ...This is a lovely painting of an incident which would have occurred so often. A man and his wife set off in their Post Chaise to catch the Stage Coach. No booking office where they are in the country and when they get to the appointed spot and the Stage arrives it is full! It
Read More ...The fabulously talented John Leech, who completed in his lifetime an extraordinary amount of illustrative art work. He was a regular contributor to the London Illustrated News. He did all the illustrations for Surtees. and this one is of Rotten Row and a young man turning to his mother perhaps and saying he would rather
Read More ...PLATE 1 These are four wonderful prints describing the road to Brighton by coach and horses. In the background of the first hand-coloured print we see a millanery shop owned by a Jane Fisher, she imports foreign products. There is a post chaise company to the left of the picture. We see a variety of
Read More ...Maori Venture was born 1976, died 2000, he was sired by St Columbus, out of Moon Venture, bred by Dai Maori Morgan Welsh Publican. Dia had played Rugby in New Zealand, hence the name. He out-lived three owners; the first one was Major Jack Rubin, the second Ken Girling, whose son was a jockey, the
Read More ...The Art of Brewing We might a drink a lot of it, but we did not invent it. Beer dates back between 5000 & 4000 years to the Sumerian civilisation and may go back further. Alcohol and bread have pretty much sustained mankind for thousands of years and provided a more complex diet than just
Read More ...This little cream jug is modern and very colourful. It has the same design in relief as the older stoneware hunting jug. It is in relief and then coloured. It is delightful. Crows Auction House, Dorking.
Read More ...This is a stoneware hunting jug. They come in many shapes some with longer necks, some squatter. This would have been a very popular design, with the hound on the handle, and then a hunting scene, with huntsman and hounds and of course horses. These are all done in low relief. The stone ware glaze
Read More ...Every aristocrat had a coat of arms, so did all the guilds. Today the need for a logo, or company insignia, or stamp continues to utilise the concept of needing to be recognised. That was what the coat of arms implied it told you who was your opponent in the joust, or whose carriage had
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