Elegant Horse Model Print - Early 20th Century - BREYER Horse Model... 30 years before!

Hi!  Please tap through the pics to see both the current and raw version of this visual treasure.  From the Horse & Carriage Collection at The Willing Mind.  By exclusive arrangement with The Grand Review.  Print size 18 x 24, and consciously formatted to work with a 18 x 24 frame, or custom framed as you see fit.

Breyer horse models and collectors.  A world all its own!
Growing up in a big family on an 18th century horse farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania, my three sisters all had horses and ponies, and they rode to the hunt.  English.  That said, English or Western, you bet they had late 1950s and 1960s Breyer horse models!

Being one of the brothers in the house, I appreciated those models from a distance, I suppose.  I was aware of how much my sisters enjoyed their modest collections and made sure to give them plenty of girl space when it came to their displays.

When I first acquired this pre WWI era print, it made me think of them and that time, and while doing the research that is always a part of the process here at The Grand Review, I looked into horse models with an internet search.  Well, I had NO IDEA how big a world of collecting horse models was and is.  You could've knocked me over with a feather!

The original illustration was created decades before the beginnings of Breyer horse models, but it just naturally looks like a part of the history of horse model collecting.  I hope it brings smiles all around, and graces the walls of every collector in North America.

Note that 18 x 24 frames are easy find and inexpensive to buy, so this print can go up on the wall pretty quick, you bet!

Enjoy!

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A NOTE ON OUR PROCESS, OUR CHOICES AND THE QUALITY OF THE GRAPHIC CRAFTSMANSHIP THAT GOES INTO OUR PRINTS.
Every print we deem exciting enough to present to the public via our Etsy store or available here at our studio has gone through a number of steps.  The first of those is always discovering and falling in love with an obscure image, always an original that we can hold in our hands.  That image is speaking to us, sometime screaming “Don’t leave me here.  See what I am, what I was, what I can be, what I SHOULD be!”

There is a real sense of excitement involved, and a great many smiles and knowing grins when we make that deal and bring that ancient print, that battered photo, that scrap of ephemera that contains some scrap of genius from an unknown commercial artist home with us, knowing already how we mean to approach its restoration.

There is the heady promise of a further hunt just as real as what drags a weekend fisherman out of bed at 3AM to work a favorite brook as we start our research, looking for that great backstory, and both ready and willing to tumble down as many rabbit holes as are revealed to us to get that story.

Then there is a meticulous digital restoration that is as often as much fun as riding a vintage Moto Guzzi on a winding coastal road.  I don’t care if that sounds crazy, it really is like jumping in the saddle!  So many choices, so many chances to take to subtly or spectacularly give new life to otherwise permanently obscure images.

This dedication and the ongoing rush of joy in the accomplishment of it, and the opportunity to share the results in our studio and here on Etsy, is the fire of passion that keeps these engines roaring. We make every effort to ensure our customers are not just satisfied but thrilled, and we happily stand 100% behind our work.