This photo comes from L’Algérie Photographiée: Province d’Oran, by Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin, taken circa 1856/7.
Arabian horse in Algeria
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This photo comes from L’Algérie Photographiée: Province d’Oran, by Félix-Jacques-Antoine Moulin, taken circa 1856/7.
He might be a barb or an arab-barb. At that time, everything from North-Africa was called “Arab”, because the people were collectively called Arabs.
There certainly is something Iberian about him. Lovely, all the same.
Arab-Barb and Barb are a distinct possibility! Wish that there were more information about the horse with the photo, but alas, the caption is as much as there is.