In Harness

Plough, cart, timber and coach — the working horse, usually painted as part of the ground it turns.

Cart, plough, barge, timber and coach: the horse at work is the horse most people actually saw. These pictures belong to landscape and genre painting rather than to sporting art, and the animal in them is usually heavy, usually seen from the side, and usually doing something slow. They are also the most reliable record in the collection of what rural work looked like before the engine.