Turkish Horses - J.G. Pforr

 Salvete Omnes,

it seems to me that we have one lazy Friday of the dog days of this summer, save for the attempted assassination of the former POTUS in Pennsylvania last Saturday, a d here we are continuing with the horses of brushes and pencils by Johann Georg Pforr. 
today we will look at the Turkish horse - or the horse of the Ottoman Empire, the multiethnic and multireligious imperial realm, in the second half of the XVIII century in a serious eclipse, both militarily and economically. 

Two horses, of which the grey is saddled with a type of saddle known as jarczak(Jarcak)

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details of the legs and hooves

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Jarczak saddle, with an obergurt (ober-sattelgurt) or ryngort (leather straps with cinch arrangement holding the saddle with a shabraq on horse's back) 

and finally, what our good friend The Sportsman's Dictionary had to say about the Turkish horse circa 1770AD- 

Valete

Mikolaj Hieronim Sieniawski, Leliwa Coat of Arms

 Salvee Omnes,

 

National Museum in Krakow has been digitalizing their collections - so I decided to corral some items associated with Mikolaj Hieronim Sieniawski, Leliwa coat of arms, who was a Field Crown Hetman during the reign of Jan III, and participated as a commander in many battles of this period, dying in present day Slovakia during the return of the Commonwealth armies to Poland from the 1683 Vienna campaign.

So here are the itemes - a portrait

 

his karacen scale armor with a winged hussar helmet /shishak - 

his sabre - 

his powder horn -

his beautiful saddle in detail 

 finally some of his portraits from wiki commons, a mix of the XVII and XVIII century works. 

Valete