Classical Riding Master, The: Wilton House Collection - Softcover

THE CLASSICAL RIDING MASTER: THE WILTON HOUSE COLLECTION

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Published by Eyre Methuen, 1979. Hardcover in very good condition. Dark brown coverboard, with gilt spine titles, and gilt illustration of a man on horseback. Contents are complete, clean and free from annotations or inscriptions. Dust jacket in good condition, but edgworn, edgecreased, minor closed tear and internal foxing. "The fifty-five charming gouache pictures commissioned by the 10th Earl of Pembroke and reproduced here in full colour, show all the exercises of classical equestrianism in the eighteenth century, when the previously mainly utilitarian training of the horse was elevated into an art form comparable with the ballet". Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Artikel-Nr. ABE-1625755064218

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