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Alternative Title
Aquiline
Description
A tiny white ceramic horse figurine with contrasting black snip, forelock, mane, tale and hooves. Fashioned to stand on a green ovoid base that provides support while suggesting grass.
4. Aquiline. The horse of Raymond of Toulouse, who was accounted to be the most sagacious and among the most valiant of the crusadera in Tasse’s Jerusalem Delivered, in which epic the horse Aquiline is somewhat elaborately described.
Exhibit label:
AQUILINE, THE HORSE OF RAYMOND OF TOULOUSE.
A gift from Grace Abundant.
—"Grace Abundant" in Special Delivery.
Dimensions (Length x Width x Height in cm)
2 x 1 x 2
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958; Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595
Topical Subject
Horses; Figurines; Crusades--First, 1096-1099; Italian poetry--16th century
City/Location
Richmond (Va.)
Genre
figures (representations)
Type
Physical Object
Digital Format
image/jpg
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine Collection
Source
Horse 4, Aquiline, James Branch Cabell Horse Figurine collection, M 377, Box 3, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
m377_i004.jpg