1743 DUKE NEWCASTLE EQUESTRIAN HORSE PRINT #16

1743 DUKE NEWCASTLE EQUESTRIAN HORSE PRINT #16 (image 1/1)
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Duke of Newcastle Horse Prints William Cavendish the Duke of Newcastle Parade du TrotThese beautiful, extravagantly engraved prints capture one of the most romantic & difficult times in European history, when the horse was still king & its training of supreme importance in battle.William Cavendish the Duke of Newcastle was a Royalist or Cavalier, with the long flowing locks and sumptuous clothes typical of his class. It was the time of the English Civil War, with Olive Cromwell & his party of Roundheads gaining ascendancy over the Royalists. The roundheads, a term of derision, were so called because of their short hair as � they had the hair of their heads very few of them longer than their ears.� The war was both a religious & class war, with the Royalists mostly aristocratic Episcopalians or Catholics asserting the �Divine Right of Kings� & the Roundheads Puritans from the merchant & working class, believing in democracy and religious reform. Having fought for King Charles I, who was executed, Cavendish was exiled to France during Cromwell�s reign. T he pursued, in the manner befitting a nobleman, the training of his eight Barbary horses for �the service of the Field in Time of War, or for the Exercise & Improvement of Gentlemen in the Acadenmy at home.� He published his theories in this area first in Antwerp in 1657 & then read more
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