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Feeding the Horses (Horses, Figures and Poultry)

John Frederick Herring I (1795–1865)

Newstead Abbey, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

Feeding the Horses (Horses, Figures and Poultry)

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In the archway of a stone building stand two horses. Under the arch stands a large grey, with saddle and bridle, being held to rein by a woman dressed in a hat, blue jacket and skirt. To the side of the woman is a window with three pots of flowers, and there is ivy growing above the archway. In front of the grey is a chestnut horse, also saddled. It stoops to feed from a small bran tub held by a seated man on the right. He wears a tam o' shanter hat with a red pom-pom, white shirt with cuffs rolled up, and damson coloured breeches. Next to him is a wooden pail of water. In the immediate foreground of the picture, on the courtyard floor, are birds pecking the ground; a cockerel, four speckled hens, six pigeons and one white pouting pigeon, its chest puffed up.

Newstead Abbey, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

Ravenshead

Title

Feeding the Horses (Horses, Figures and Poultry)

Date

1858

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 127 x W 106.7 cm

Accession number

NCM 1941-23

Acquisition method

purchased from the executors of the estate of Sir Thomas Shipstone, 1941

Work type

Painting

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Newstead Abbey, Nottingham City Museums and Galleries

Ravenshead, Nottinghamshire NG15 8GE England

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John Frederick Herring I

1795–1865

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