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[Ornate tool (for horse-shoeing) - opp. p. 60] – Vintage Print

[Ornate tool (for horse-shoeing) - opp. p. 60] — antique engraving
[Ornate tool (for horse-shoeing) - opp. p. 60]. Antique engraving from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Ornate tool (for horse-shoeing) - opp. p. 60] comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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The engraver has rendered this ornate horseshoeing tool in fine, controlled lines, and its title places it on a page facing page 60 of a printed volume. That placement suggests it was bound into a book rather than issued alone, a common arrangement for seventeenth-century treatises on horses and their care. Dated 1678, the plate reflects a time when illustrators took pains to show farriers' working implements so that readers could recognize and understand them. Images like this one remain useful evidence of how such tools were designed before industrial manufacturing changed them.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes1678
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,137 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136995

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