[William Cavendish, Duke Newcastle] Le Chateau De Bothel (dans la province de Northumberland) qui fut à Mons.r le Baron d'Ogle, et est apresent é Monseigneur le Marquis.
Abr. a Diepenbeke delin. A. Lommelin sculp. [Antewerp, c.1657.] Engraving. 380 x 510mm (15 x 20"). Mounted in album paper at edges. Central crease as normal. A view of deer hunting with hounds in the grounds of Bothal Castle on the River Wansbeck, but essentially an 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', including this plate, was published by Jacob van Meurs c.1657. The first English edition, 'A General System of Horsemanship in All Its Branches', was not published until 1743.
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