The Classical Riding Master: The Wilton House Collection commentary by Dorian Williams (Gently Used copy)

The Classical Riding Master: The Wilton House Collection commentary by Dorian Williams (Gently Used copy)The fifty five charming gouache pictures commisioned 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 ballet. The paintings were painted by Xenophon Press author, Baron Reis d'Eisenberg ["The Art of Riding a Horse or Description of Modern Manege in all