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Leaping dog, Leaping horse, copyright of old masters

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2009-06-20 20:34:58 - Graham Ellis

A picture I took earlier - Gypsy leaping through high grass in the field that also includes the Devizes White Horse. It got me thinking that I have seen other pictures of leaping animals, and also how small the picture subject can become yet still remain the picture subject.


Here is "The Leaping Horse" by John Constable - from a different age, yet once again the actual subject of the picture is small and the landscape around is all. I took a careful look at this image - "copyright" I wondered before I posted it here. I have checked and found that where an artist has been deceased for more than 50 years, it is generally acceptable to reproduce his work verbatim in this way; some interesting links here and here and a reminder that you should check for yourself if in doubt about anything you are going to publish.