print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- Mm,3.40
- Description
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Figure 27 of second part: King Louis XIII on horseback at centre, his horse walking towards left, where a page is holding some whips, Messieurs de Pluvinel and le Grand onlooking at right, Marquis le Souvre seated on a bench behind them, a halberdier beyond; surrounded by frame on separate plate showing classical architecture and coat of arms of France and Navarre at top centre; illustration to second edition of Antoine de Pluvinel's "L'Instruction du Roy" (Paris: 1625)
Engraving
- Production date
- 1623 (published 1625)
- Dimensions
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Height: 204 millimetres (central image)
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Height: 320 millimetres (frame)
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Width: 299 millimetres
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Width: 412 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from a series of sixty book-illustrations; for comment see the title-page Mm,3.22*. This plate was also used for Figure 30 of the second part of the second edition. This plate was the twenty-eighth figure in the first edition published in 1623.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Instruction du Roy en L'exercice de Monter a Cheval (Paris, 1625)
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Mm,3.40