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heaven. The breaft thong of the horfe is ornamented with precious ftones ; the bridle 

 is partly formed by a metallic chain. The horfeman has a bow and arrow in his left 

 hand, and to his faddle is fattened a richly-ornamented quiver. 



The drawing from an Englifh MS. of the fame century (Plate 27) is by no means 

 fo good as the preceding one ; but it is, neverthelefs, a curious illuftration of coftume. 

 The horfes are covered, as in a tournament. The deep faddles, with backs like an arm- 

 chair, would feem very inconvenient to a modern horfeman. The knight whofe horfe 

 bears a Saint Andrew's crofs on his cloth has fent his lance through the fhield and body 

 of his adverfary, whofe horfe-cloth is covered with Loraine crofles. Both are rather 

 fparingly clad for fo ferious an encounter, and bear their fhields fufpended from the 

 neck. 



The horfemen in Plate 28 are taken from the Italian frefco-paintings of the Campo 

 Santo di Pifa. They form part of the " Triumph of Death," painted by Andrea Orgagna, 

 and are to be feen in the more pidturefque than artiftic attitude of flopping their nofes, 

 which appear rather difagreeably affefted by the fmell from three corpfes in various ftages 

 of decompofition. 



The horfeman with the hawk on his fift appears to be the portrait, by Orgagna, of 

 the celebrated Caftruccio, Signor di Lucca, as may be afcertained from the comparifon with 

 the coins and medals of this petty fovereign. In order to imprefs more ftrongly on the 

 noblemen of his time the vanity of human greatnefs, Andrea fhows in this compofition 

 a party of lords who, while hunting, happen to crofs a valley, where they find the dead 

 bodies of three kings. Above this compofition an old anchorite, who could not be 

 introduced here, and whom tradition affirms to have been Saint Macarius, fhows the 

 corpfes to the hunters. 



The reprefentation, Plate 29, fhows a powerful horfe, ridden by a no lefs powerful 

 horfeman. They alfo are taken from an Italian frefco-painting of the 14th century in 

 the Campo Santo di Pifa. The neck and the breaft of the animal are rather out of 

 proportion with the reft of the body, although fuch horfes can be found to this day in 

 Poland. The coftume of the rider is the moft marvellous paftkcio of antique Roman 

 drefs and mediasval accoutrement which can poffibly be imagined. The bit of the horfe 

 is alfo quite peculiar, and feems well adapted to check, by the lever it affords, the too 

 powerful adtion of the neck. This curious horfeman is one of the followers of Pilatus, and 

 the artift reprefents him as one of the cortege of Chrift, bearing His crofs towards Golgotha. 



The two drawings (Plate 30) are taken from illuftrations of the French romance (No. i) 

 of Lancelot du lac, and No. 2 of the romance of Triftan, both of the 14th century. The 

 coftume of the hunter (No. i), blowing his horn, is very fingular, appearing to confift only 

 of a loofe fliirt, open on the fides, after the Grecian cuftom ; but he wears under it a pair 



