Identifier: landseercollecti00hurl (find matches)
Title: ... Landseer : a collection of fifteen pictures and a portrait of the painter
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924 Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1878
Subjects: Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873 Horses
Publisher: Boston, Mass. New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co.
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
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together all the hardships of the campaign,—long journeys, short rations, extremes of cold andheat, fatigue and privation. The horse has learnedto listen for the familiar voice, so strong in com-mand, so reassuring in danger. Now even in hisdying agony he turns with touching devotion to hismaster. Not a sound comes from the closed Hps,not a flutter of the eyelids disturbs the calm of theface. Lifting his head for a last effort, the splendidcreature sends forth a prolonged whinny. Thismust surely arouse the sleeper, and he fixes his eyeson the impassive countenance with an almost humanexpression of anxiety and entreaty. All in vain,and in another moment the flames and smoke willenvelop them, and soon nothing will remain to showwhere they fell. This is the story we read in our picture of War.There is nothing here to tell us whether the fallenriders are among the victors or the vanquished.We do not care to know, for in either case theirfate is equally tragic. It was Englands iron duke
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WAR 47 who said Nothing except a battle lost can be halfso melancholy as a battle won. Various small touches in the composition add tothe significance of the scene. Fresh flowers amongthe heaps of stones show how recently there was asmiling garden where now all is so ghastly. Onthe ground lie an embroidered saddle-cloth, a bugle,and a sword, emblems of the military hfe. It is said that the horrors of war have never yetbeen faithfully portrayed. Those who have livedthrough the experience are unwilling to recall it,while those who draw upon their imaginations mustfall short of the reality. Whenever any powerfulimagination comes somewhere near the truth, peo-ple turn away shocked, unable to endure the spec-tacle.^ Even this picture is almost too painful tocontemplate, yet it selects only a single episode froma battlefield strewn with scenes of equal horror. Landseer had himself seen nothing of war. TheNapoleonic wars had ended in his childhood andthe Crimean war was still ten years in th

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