The Classical Riding Master: The Wilton House Collection commentary by Dorian Williams (Gently Used copy) COVER TYPE:SOFTCOVER ISBN: 9780974767024

ISBN: 9780974767024

ISBN13:: 9780933316331

ISBN13:: 9780933316829

has written a lucid text to accompany the pictures

he was more particularly known by his retraining of difficult horses and later as an equestrian journalist by his always witty and sometimes scathing articles in the French equestrian monthlyL'Information Hippique

The Classical Riding Master: The Wilton House Collection commentary by Dorian Williams (Gently Used copy) COVER TYPE:SOFTCOVER ISBN: 9780974767024The 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