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Cornelis Nicolai Schurtz Sculp. Norinburg. [Nuremberg: Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1678.] Engraving with hand colour. 205 x 295mm (8 x 11½"). Top edge worn, affecting platemark. Trimmed. Three equestrian women in elaborate costume riding side saddle, accompanied by a male rider and two equerries. From Georg Simon Winter von Adlers Flügel's 'Bellerophon, sive Eques peritus'. Winter (1629-1701), a veterinarian and the director of several German stud farms, published a number of important early treatises on raising horses, equestrian art and veterinary medicine.
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