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givings about the dimensions of the head and neck ; for he 

 takes care to add that : "A small head and neck in a horse 

 are considered a great beauty ; and in the original of this 

 drawing, I think they are the least I ever saw in proportion 

 to the body." All the saddle-horses of some English artists, 

 among whom was that unrivalled caricaturist, Mr. John 



Fig. 207. — Horse and Rider in the Parthenon. 



Leech, have a remarkably "good place for the collar" {see 

 p. 212) on their shoulders. " The old masters" drew horses 

 very incorrectly ; and yet we find in the bas-reliefs of the 

 Parthenon done over two thousand years ago, horses depicted 

 with a near approach to truth both in form and action {see 

 Fig 207). The greatest of all horse painters, Meissonier, drew 



