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![[William Cavendish, Duke Newcastle] Apres l'homme le Cheval le plus noble animal...](jpegs/55974.jpg)
[William Cavendish, Duke Newcastle] Apres l'homme le Cheval le plus noble animal...
Abr. à Diepenbeke delineavit. Petr. van Lisbetten sculpsit.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 390 x 520mm (15¼ x 20½"), with red ruling. Some staining.
Equestrian portrait of William Cavendish (1593-1676), 1st Duke of Newcastle, in armour, baton in hand, horse rearing on a plinth, surrounded by cherubs and military trophies. After the Royalist defeat in the Civil War, Cavendish settled in Antwerp, where his treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', was published by Jacob van Meurs c.1658. This example is from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'.
[Ref: 55974] £360.00
Abr. à Diepenbeke delineavit. Petr. van Lisbetten sculpsit.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 390 x 520mm (15¼ x 20½"), with red ruling. Some staining.
Equestrian portrait of William Cavendish (1593-1676), 1st Duke of Newcastle, in armour, baton in hand, horse rearing on a plinth, surrounded by cherubs and military trophies. After the Royalist defeat in the Civil War, Cavendish settled in Antwerp, where his treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', was published by Jacob van Meurs c.1658. This example is from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'.
[Ref: 55974] £360.00
Iacobus Hamiltonius, Marchio ab Hamilton, Comes Cambricensis et Aranensis, Baro Evenius et Aber=Brochius Magistro Equitum Suae Maiestatis Mage Brittanniae, et Eques Ordinis Gartery.
Ant. van Dyck pinxit. Pet. Lisebetius Sculp.
Jacobus de Man excudit.
Engraving. Plate 279 x 197mm. 11 x 7¾". Trimmed to plate along lower edge.
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (1606-1649) was a courtier and politician, and collector of paintings and sculpture. In politics he sided variously with King and Parliament during the Civil War, but was beheaded for treason after leading a Scotttish force against the parliamentary army in 1648. Engraved for the 'Iconographia' series of portraits after van Dyck.
Wibiral: 140.ii
[Ref: 24754] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Ant. van Dyck pinxit. Pet. Lisebetius Sculp.
Jacobus de Man excudit.
Engraving. Plate 279 x 197mm. 11 x 7¾". Trimmed to plate along lower edge.
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (1606-1649) was a courtier and politician, and collector of paintings and sculpture. In politics he sided variously with King and Parliament during the Civil War, but was beheaded for treason after leading a Scotttish force against the parliamentary army in 1648. Engraved for the 'Iconographia' series of portraits after van Dyck.
Wibiral: 140.ii
[Ref: 24754] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)
Le Seigneur Charles viscomte de Mansfield l'Ené Et le Seigneur Henrÿ Cavendÿshe le Cadet.
Abr. à Diepenbeke delin. Petr. van Lisebetten Sculp.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 385 x 510mm (15¼ x 20"). Centre fold as usual. Thread margins.
A group portrait of William Cavendish (1592-1676, later 1st Duke of Newcastle) and his wife seated watching his two sons practicing dressage. Also seated under the arcade are their four daughters and their husbands. Plate 42 of the Duke of Newcastle's treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', first published in Antwerp by Jacob van Meurs c.1658, but this example from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'. After the defeat of the Royalist cause in the Civil War Cavendish settled in Antwerp, where this work was engraved. However his estates at Bolsover and Welbeck Abbey were often the backdrop of these famous dressage plates.
[Ref: 48205] £360.00
Abr. à Diepenbeke delin. Petr. van Lisebetten Sculp.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 385 x 510mm (15¼ x 20"). Centre fold as usual. Thread margins.
A group portrait of William Cavendish (1592-1676, later 1st Duke of Newcastle) and his wife seated watching his two sons practicing dressage. Also seated under the arcade are their four daughters and their husbands. Plate 42 of the Duke of Newcastle's treatise on horsemanship, 'La Methode et Invention nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux', first published in Antwerp by Jacob van Meurs c.1658, but this example from the first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches'. After the defeat of the Royalist cause in the Civil War Cavendish settled in Antwerp, where this work was engraved. However his estates at Bolsover and Welbeck Abbey were often the backdrop of these famous dressage plates.
[Ref: 48205] £360.00