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fleur-de-lis, quartered by two leopards. The hat of the polite gentleman, who pays his 

 refpeds to the lady, refembles very much the never-brufhed beaver of a French country 

 fchoolmafter. The horfes feem to be as polite as their mafters, and in the very adt of 

 greeting each other by the fame movement of the head and one of the fore-legs. 



Around the feal of Charles the Bold are to be read the following words, which could 

 not find their place in Plate 34, No. 2 : — " Caroli . Dei . gracia . Burgundie . Lotharingie . 

 Brabancie . Linburgie . et Lucemburgie . duels . Flandrie . Artefie . Burgundie . Palatini . 

 HoUandie . Zelandie . et Namurcie . Comitis . Sacri . imperi . marchionis . dni . Frifie . de 

 Salinis . et de . Machlinie." 



The two horfes copied from early Italian mafters (Plate 35) in the Print-room of the 

 Britifh Mufeum are not very creditable to the country which, at a later period, produced 

 in fuch aftounding number the moft eminent artifts of the world. The fore-legs of the 

 galloping horfe are evidently too fhort ; but the other horfe and difmounted horfeman fhow 

 neverthelefs a good deal of feeling for the pifturefque. 



The horfe and attendant reprefented (Plate 36) are taken from an illuminated roll ftill 

 preferved in the College of Arms, and known by the name of the Tournament Roll. 

 This tournament was exhibited at Weftminfter, February 12th, 1510-11, in honour of 

 Queen Catharine, and on the occafion of the birth of the king's firft fon, who died but a 

 few months afterwards. A coloured copy of this horfe and attendant will be found, Plate 

 74, vol. ii. of Shaw.* 



From Italy and England, if we pafs to Germany, the contraft is very ftriking between 

 the ftyle of horfes reprefented in the preceding plates, and that of the heavy chargers drawn 

 by German artifts. In Plate 37, for inftance, Lucas Cranach has portrayed the Margraf 

 Albert, in full armour, with a plume of feathers, like a fhrubbery on, and flowing 

 behind, his helmet ; while he holds, leaning on the pommel of his faddle, a lance of fuch 

 tremendous fize that it is no marvel if the horfe appears ftumbling rather than cantering 

 under its weight. Englifli brewer horfes can only give an adequate idea of the clumfy 

 fteed here granted by Cranach to his patron. 



The horfe (Plate 38) by the fame artift, and with the early date 1508, is much more 

 elegant, and fuggefts at once the idea of a very ftrong, but fwift and fpirited animal. 



Three years before the latter date Albert Diirer engraved the white horfe reproduced 

 in Plate 29- This engraving is what iconographifts call the fmall horfe looking towards 

 the left ; the knight behind is thought to be Perfeus preparing to go and releafe Andro- 

 meda. The early date of the engraving fhows that Diirer took his model from the 

 brewers' horfes of Nuremberg, his native place, for we very much doubt that he ftiould 

 have given fuch a heavy nag to a mythological charadter after his return from Italy in 1507. 



* "Drefles and Decorations of the Middle Ages." London : W, Pickering, 1848. 



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