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[Dressage.]
[Dressage.]
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.
[Ref: 48191]   £190.00   (£228.00 incl.VAT)
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Le Seigneur Charles viscomte de Mansfield l'Ené Et le Seigneur Henrÿ Cavendÿshe le Cadet.
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  
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Rubecan un Rousin.
Rubecan un Rousin.
Abr. à Diepenbeke delin. Lucas Vorstermans Sculp.
[London: John Brindley, 1743.]
Engraving. 385 x 530mm (15¼ x 21"). Centre fold as usual, trimmed within plate at sides, as issued.
A portrait of a squire holding the reins of a horse, landscape behind. Plate 10 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 William Cavendish (1592-1676) 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: 48206]   £280.00   (£336.00 incl.VAT)
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Jumont Anglaise.
Jumont Anglaise.
Carle Vernet. I. lithog. de Delpech.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 420 x 550mm (16½ x 21¾") large margins.
An 'English Mare' in a landscape, after Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758-1835), published in the 'Grande Suite de Chevaux' (1817-21).
[Ref: 48208]   £450.00  
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Cheval Anglaise au moment de la Course.
Cheval Anglaise au moment de la Course.
Carle Vernet. Imp. lithog. de F. Delpech.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 420 x 550mm (16½ x 21¾").
A jockey teaching a racehorse the course, after Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758-1835), published in the 'Grande Suite de Chevaux' (1817-21).
[Ref: 48209]   £300.00  
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La Lilly.
La Lilly.
Carle Vernet. Imp. I. lithog. de Delpech.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 420 x 550mm (16½ x 21¾") large margins.
A jockey about to mount a mare racehorse, after Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758-1835), published in the 'Grande Suite de Chevaux' (1817-21).
Dayot 215.
[Ref: 48207]   £450.00  
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Cheval de Cavalerie Française.
Cheval de Cavalerie Française.
Carle Vernet. I. lithog. de F. Delpech.
[n.d., c.1820.]
Lithograph. Sheet 420 x 550mm (16½ x 21¾") large margins. Slight foxing mark on right margin.
A cavalry trooper watering his horse from a bucket, after Antoine Charles Horace Vernet (1758-1835), published in the 'Grande Suite de Chevaux' (1817-21).
[Ref: 48210]   £380.00  
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