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THE PAINTERS HORSE. 



exceptions. The most usual faults of conformation to be 

 seen in horse pictures, are absurdly small heads and ex- 

 travagantly long hind-quarters, from point of hip to point of 

 buttock. We see them well shown in Figs. 205 and 206. The 

 former is a sketch of an equestrian portrait, by the French 



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Fig. 206. — Horse by Alken. 



artist Parrocel, of Louis XV. in his youth. The latter is 

 from Beiuities and Defects hi the Figure of the Horse, by 

 H. Alken, who published it seventy years ago, and who 

 described the subject of his work as follows : " The animal 

 from which this drawing was made, is accounted one of the 

 finest figures in England." He must have had some mis- 



