Angela Palmer British, b. 1957
Eclipse, 2018
Ink drawing on 32 sheets of Mirogard glass on wooden base
125 x 81 x 45.5 cm including base
49 1/4 x 31 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
49 1/4 x 31 7/8 x 17 7/8 in
Edition 2 of 5
This fabulous piece by artist Angela Palmer is based on CT scans of the most famous racehorse in the world which were undertaken at the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield,...
This fabulous piece by artist Angela Palmer is based on CT scans of the most famous racehorse in the world which were undertaken at the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield, Hertfordshire under the direction of Dr Renate Weller.
Eclipse was unbeaten in the 18 races he ran between 1769 and 1771. H sired many hundreds of foals and his bloodlines can be traced down through racing history with his descendants including Desert Orchid and Kauto Star. Remarkably, experts believe up to 95 per cent of today's thoroughbred racehorses can trace their lineage back to Eclipse.
When Eclipse died in 1789 aged 25 scientists performed the first known autopsy on a horse in the UK to try to discover why he was so fast. Today his skeleton is preserved and studied at the Royal Veterinary College in Hertfordshire where it continues to cause controversy. A recent study involving DNA taken from his skeleton revealed that Eclipse's parentage had been misatrributed for the past 200 years and scientists are now calling for the rewriting of the horseracing bible, The General Stud Book of England.
Eclipse was unbeaten in the 18 races he ran between 1769 and 1771. H sired many hundreds of foals and his bloodlines can be traced down through racing history with his descendants including Desert Orchid and Kauto Star. Remarkably, experts believe up to 95 per cent of today's thoroughbred racehorses can trace their lineage back to Eclipse.
When Eclipse died in 1789 aged 25 scientists performed the first known autopsy on a horse in the UK to try to discover why he was so fast. Today his skeleton is preserved and studied at the Royal Veterinary College in Hertfordshire where it continues to cause controversy. A recent study involving DNA taken from his skeleton revealed that Eclipse's parentage had been misatrributed for the past 200 years and scientists are now calling for the rewriting of the horseracing bible, The General Stud Book of England.
