Horse head with red bridle, saddle and top hat – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This historic image of Horse head with red bridle, saddle and top hat brings a moment of history to your wall. Drawn from the Snapshots of the Past archive, it is an authentic piece of documented history.
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Horse head with red bridle, saddle and top hat
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A horse head wearing a red bridle, saddle and top hat is a playful, deliberately theatrical image, and the top hat is what sets it apart from the plainer equine portraits on this board. Pairing a working animal with formal city wear was a common device in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century humor and advertising, where a horse dressed like a gentleman could poke fun at the carriage trade or simply delight a viewer. The red tack adds a bold accent that draws the eye straight to the animal's face. Look closely at how the harness and the hat are arranged, since the composition depends on that contrast between the rough animal and the polished costume.
| Original scan | 981 × 599 px |
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| Reference | Hor9 |
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