20 Horfe 



es. 



and trappings very much refemble thofe of Burgkmair horfes. 



Jan Van der Straat, or J. Stradanus, in his " Equile Joannis Auftriaci," in-fol. f. 1. et a., 

 but printed at Antwerp by Ph. Galle, and engraved by H. Wiercx, has drawn fome 

 fplendid fpeclmens of horfes, from which the two Roman horfes (Plate 56) were taken. 

 Their ears are cut fhort, after the antique fafhion ; the mane is flowing in all its 

 luxuriance ; the tail of the left horfe is trufled up, but the other prefents an abundance 

 of curling hair. The joints alone are heavy, and not well fhaped. The right-hand horfe 

 is flyled " equus matronalis," and, of courfe, is intended for a lady's horfe. 



The equeflrian portrait of Francis I,, painted by Janet in the fixteenth century, was 

 fome years ago in the pofTefTion of Mr. Henry Farrer, the eminent colledtor of works 

 of art in Bond Street. We have reproduced it (Plate 57) after the capital engraving 

 which is to be found in Shaw's " DrefTes and Decorations of the Middle Ages," vol. i. 

 plate 83. 



The three heads of horfes (Plate 58) are drawn after Leonardo da Vinci. 



From Italian art we come back (Plate 59) to another fine fpecimen of Van der Straat's 

 horfes. The noble animal here delineated evidently was at once of great flrength and 

 wonderful fwiftnefs. It is engraved in the " Equile Joannis Aufl:riaci," plate 9, and is 

 given as a Theflalian horfe. 



The quaint horfes of Martin Zeiffinger, engraved in 1501, could not be pafled over 

 in a book like the prefent. They will be found in Plate 60, where three horfes are 

 reprefented in three different attitudes, — one ftanding, the other at full gallop, and the 

 third backing under the hand of his rider. 



This colledtion of fixty drawings could not be intended as the illuftration to a complete 

 hiftory of the horfe, but by the varieties of fpecimens borrowed from the beft fources we 

 hope it will be found acceptable to the artift and antiquarian, as well as to the naturalift 

 and fportfman. 



