HORSE LEAPING. 



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set up as an axiom, that many artists represent, in their 

 works, horses in attitudes which they have never assumed, 

 and which they could not assume." 



One form of conventional leap appears to have been 

 taken from Aiken's drawing [see Fig. 212). It is; neither 



Fig. 212. — Horse Leaping, bv Alken. 



correct nor does it give, at least to a horseman, the idea 

 of what is intended to be represented. A horse which is in 

 the act of landing, is usually represented, by the stencil-plate 

 man, with its fore feet so far to the front, that, when they will 

 come to the ground, it could not possibly raise its forehand. 



