Crispin Van de Passe II, Additional engraved title-plate.
Engraving. 335 mm x 218 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Additional engraved title-plate
After Crispin Van de Passe II
RA Collection: Art
335 mm x 218 mm
L'Instruction Du Roy, En L'Exercice De Monter A Cheval. Par Messire Antoine De Pluvinel, son Sous-Gouverneur, Conseiller en son Conseil d'Estat, Chambellan ordinaire, & son Escuyer principal. Lequel respondant à sa Majesté, luy faict remarquer l'excellence de sa Methode, pour reduire les chevaux en peu de temps à l'obeyssance des justes proportions de tous les plus beaux airs & maneiges. Le tout enrichy de grands figures en taille douce, representant les vrayes & naïsves actions des hommes & des chevaux en tous les airs, & maneiges, courses de bague, rompre en lice au Quintan, & combatre à L'Espée: ensemble les figures des brides, les plus necessaires à cet usage, desseignées & gravées Par Crispian De Pas. - A Amsterdam,: [1666]
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