Vaclav Hollar - horse & rider, cart & wagon

 Salvete Omnes,

back to the XVII century: more riding and draft horses, carts  and wagons of our Bohemian-English artist - Vaclav Wenceclas Hollar.

mantelzak behind the rider

enjoy

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Vaclav Hollar - carriages

 Salvete Omnes,
October is our new 2024 month, and it should be glorious and full of shinning leaves and color.

But we have a new escalation of open warfare in the Middle East - my prayers are with the poor and defenseless civilian population of Lebanon and Holy Land, with Iran, Iraq, Syria Yemen and Jordan perhaps also affected... what a disaster

.. Ad rem, yet again we shall revisit 1630-60s in the continental Europe - and again with our Czech master Vaclav Hollar.
let us enjoy the sumptuous, multi-horses carriages of the nobility as shown in maestro Hollar's prints.

nice group of horse trumpeters on the right

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Vaclav Wenceslas Hollar - Hawking or hunting birds

 Salvete Omnes,

Bochemian and eventually English artist  Vaclav (Wenceslas) Hollar of Prague created many prints during this long and prolific artistic life - hundreds in the Wiki Commons depositories

There are some of his works that depict falconry or hawking  that may interest us - 

Pheasant hunt 

partridge hunt

Heron hunt

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Vaclav, Wenceslaus, Hollar - equestrian portraits

 Salvete Omnres,

there was this Czech or Bohemian artist Vaclav Hollar, who left Czech Crown(under the Austrian Hapsburg rule) in the 1630s and eventually became a English Crown subject, practicing his art and skills in London, where he passed away in 1677AD.
He created many very interesting prints, including these equestrianp ortraits of the leaders of the era - 30 Years War and English Civil War.

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and  a bit fantastic image of a Chinese personage - governor of Canton .

and in the Americana collection, he did this engraving of an American Virginian  (Algonquian) indigenous warrior  (Powhatan?) - done in 1645D

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