Concept

Horseshoeing

Images

  • Travellers visit the smith in his workshop to have their horses shod. Engraving by A.H. Payne after Ph. Wouwermans.
  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint after J. Harris the elder.
  • Two scenes of a farrier extracting a tooth from a male patient and a blacksmith extracting a tooth from a female patient. Etching after J. Harris the elder.
  • 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?).
  • A rustic farrier turned tooth-drawer extracting a tooth from a standing man, a woman looks on. Coloured mezzotint, 1792, after J. Harris the elder.

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