Edward Snape.
Whitby pinx.t. Godby sculp.
London, Publish'd by the Author, May 1, 1791.
Stipple. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Edward Snape (b.1728), a farrier, holding an book illustrating blood vessels. In 1766 Snape proposed the establishment of a 'hippiatric [horse] infirmary' as a school for the 'instruction of pupils in the profession', which eventually opened in Knightsbridge in 1778, the same year he published a print, 'A Muscular Preparation of a Horse', on which he described himself as 'Farrier to their Majesty’s & the 2nd Troop of the Horse Guards' with an address in Berkeley Square. In 1791 he published 'A Practical treatise on farriery including remarks on all diseases incident to horses', which had a second edition in 1805.
[Ref: 43391] £75.00
London, Publish'd by the Author, May 1, 1791.
Stipple. 195 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"), with very large margins.
Portrait of Edward Snape (b.1728), a farrier, holding an book illustrating blood vessels. In 1766 Snape proposed the establishment of a 'hippiatric [horse] infirmary' as a school for the 'instruction of pupils in the profession', which eventually opened in Knightsbridge in 1778, the same year he published a print, 'A Muscular Preparation of a Horse', on which he described himself as 'Farrier to their Majesty’s & the 2nd Troop of the Horse Guards' with an address in Berkeley Square. In 1791 he published 'A Practical treatise on farriery including remarks on all diseases incident to horses', which had a second edition in 1805.
[Ref: 43391] £75.00