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| William Blake The Horse ca. 1805 tempera on copper Yale Center for British Art |
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| Jacques-Laurent Agasse Two Hunters with a Groom ca. 1805 oil on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse Arab Mourning his Steed ca. 1812 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum of Art (Alabama) |
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| Théodore Géricault Capture of a Wild Horse 1817 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen |
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| Benjamin Robert Haydon Study of Sculpted Horse's Heads (left, from the east pediment of the Parthenon - right, from the Basilica of San Marco, Venice) 1817 etching British Museum |
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| William Lock Byron's Mazeppa ca. 1820-30 lithograph British Museum |
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| Horace Vernet Byron's Mazeppa 1826 oil on canvas Kunsthalle, Bremen |
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| Richard Barrett Davis 'Maria' held by a Groom, with jockey James Robertson and a Pony 1828 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Samuel Owen Head of a Horse ca. 1843-45 drawing Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
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| Eugène Delacroix Horses emerging from the Sea 1860 oil on canvas Phillips Collection, Washington DC |
from The Forsaken Merman
Come, dear children, let us away;
Down and away below!
Now my brothers call from the bay,
Now the great winds shoreward blow,
Now the salt tides seaward flow;
Now the wild white horses play,
Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.
Children dear, let us away!
This way, this way!
Call her once before you go –
Call once yet!
In a voice that she will know:
"Margaret! Margaret!"
Children's voices should be dear
(Call once more) to a mother's ear;
Children's voices, wild with pain –
Surely she will come again!
Call her once and come away;
This way, this way!
"Mother dear, we cannot stay!
The wild white horses foam and fret."
Margaret! Margaret!
Come dear children, come away down;
Call no more!
One last look at the white-wall'd town
And the little grey church on the windy shore,
Then come down!
She will not come though you call all day;
Come away, come away!
– Matthew Arnold (1849)
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| Edgar Degas Study of a Horse's Head 1878 drawing Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Edwin Landseer Queen Victoria at Osborne ca. 1865-67 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| W.A. Mansell Horse of Selene from the East Pediment of the Parthenon (among the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum) ca. 1870 albumen silver print Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Achenbach Foundation) |
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| Ottomar Anschütz Horse restrained by a Groom 1884 albumen silver print Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Jacques de Lalaing Artist's Model posed on Horse Mannequin ca. 1886 photograph Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |