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Category Archives: 1700s
Bartabas
More anon on Bartabas – several years anon, I hope (just to be cryptic). I’m going to Sadler’s Wells to see The Centaur and the Animal in a couple of weeks. Horses first danced minuets at the theatre in the eighteenth century, and I saw an Andalusian perform there the last time I visited. This …
Cheque Book Stubbs?
George Stubbs’ “Brood Mares and Foals” will be auctioned at Sotheby’s next Wednesday, and is expected to fetch £15,000,000.
Dizzying Delights
Here’s a short report at The Local about the restoration of the oldest stationary carousel in the world, in Hanau: Commissioned by 1780 by Wilhelm I., Elector of Hesse, as part of the Wilhelmsbad park, the complicated ride has had a turbulent history. “At the very beginning, the carrousel would have been pulled by local …
The Heart of a Horse
Karen Krizanovich sent me a piece by Ann Hornaday from the Washington Post about the use of sound effects in film soundtracks, with particular reference to the new Disney film about the great American racehorse Secretariat: “… as the chestnut colt — called Big Red through most of the movie — makes his way from …