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Ernhold, Tallying forth on horfeback in fearch of adventures, rather uniform in character, 

 but no lefs wonderful and flattering to the phyfical ftrength of the wandering knight. 

 The three horfemen at full gallop (Plate 48) are the work of the fame artift. The horfe in 

 advance has his tail cut fhort — a feature rarely met in fuch early pictures. All of thefe 

 horfes are truly typical of the German breed, In Plate 49, taken alfo from Schaueflein, we 

 have reprefentations of ladies on horfeback — one fitting by herfelf ; the other behind her 

 hufband, whofe waift fhe embraces to maintain her pofition. The two ladies are not fitting 

 aftride, but in the ladylike fafhion univerfal in Europe among well-bred people. 



The knight (Plate 50) with a wild-boar's head on the point of his fpear, and followed 

 by a tame lion, is the famous Guy, Earl of Warwick. That engraving is taken from the 

 hiftory of the Englifh Don Quixote, written by Samuel Rowlands, and printed by Edward 

 Allde in 1607, 4to. The fame engraving is to be found, on a very fcarce ballad of the 

 time, preferved at the Britifh Mufeum, in the Roxburgh collection of fpecimens of popular 

 fongs and broadfides. The engraver, in transferring the drawing to the block, did not 

 take care to reverfe his transfer, and the refult is that the famous knight carries his fword 

 on the right fide, as in former times executioners were bound to do, left they fhould be 

 miftaken for honeft warriors. 



A Ruffian on horfeback, by Hans Weigel, is reproduced in Plate 51, from " Habitvs 

 prascipuorum populorum," Nuremberg, 1577, in-fol. Plate clxxi. The horfeman is appa- 

 rently drafted in a padded overcoat, which affords protection both againft the cold and the 

 arrows of an enemy. The bow is kept in a cafe hanging frojn the girdle by a ftrap ; the 

 arrows in a quiver on the right-hand fide. 



In Plate 52, from the fame work (Plate clxv.), H. Weigel reprefented a Hungarian 

 nobleman riding a horfe of the fame breed as the preceding one. The bow-cafe is hanging 

 by a ftrap on the right fide of the horfeman, while the quiver is fattened between his 

 fhoulders by another ftrap. The curb and fpurs are of an almoft modern form. 



A German faddle and ftirrups of the latter half of the 16th century (Plate 52), are copied 

 from the " Kunftwerke und Gerathfchaften des Mittelalters und RenaifTance," by C. Becker 

 and J. von Hefner. Francfort, 1852. 4to. vol. i. p. 52. The ftirrups prefent a fine 

 fpecimen of workmanfhip, while the front and raifed back of the faddle are covered with 

 exquifite bas-reliefs of antique cavalry fighting, in embofled iron. 



Lucas Van Leyden has fome beautiful fpecimens of horfes, and among them the noble 

 fteed (Plate 54) engraved in 15 16. The fpurs of the horfeman are not only tapering 

 in a fingle point, but their fhaft is in form of a faw, and their ufe mult have been moft 

 cruel for the animal. 



The horfes of Joft Amman (Plate 55) are lefs heavy than thofe of Burgkmair or 

 Albert Durer, but they evidently belong to the German breed. Their leather horfecloth 



