The National Sporting Library & Museum
NEWSLETTER A RESEARCH CENTER FOR HORSE AND FIELD SPORTS
NUMBER 96
1954 • FIFTY-SIX YEARS • 2010
MIDDLEBURG, VIRGINIA
SUMMER 2010
Literary and Visual Art Donations Enhance the Collections author also comments on The National Sporting the importance of disposiLibrary & Museum has tional aptitude of animals cause for celebration intended for work as a when a rare book, manuteam (there are at least script or painting is three separate chapters on donated! Gifts of books, the temperament of horses manuscripts, art and film and how it may be used to keep the collections enhance the consonance in updated and enriched, the combination of more enabling the institution to than one animal), and the meet the growing needs differences in internationof visiting researchers and al riding and harnessing resident scholars in the styles (special emphasis is John H. Daniels given to the French style, Fellowship Program. In differentiating it from the addition to paintings by current Austrian fashion). Franklin Brooke Voss, The work is almost cerSam Savitt, Henri Delattre tainly unpublished: we and Charles Johnson can find no similarly-titled Payne, as well as a Paul printed work,” stated Brown poster, there have Croft. been many books and Timothy J. Greenan, manuscripts added to the NSL&M Board Member, collection this past year. donated three extremely In time for the opening rare dog books which are of the current Library currently on display. exhibit Lives of Dogs, These volumes will beneAlcalde, an Hector fit the researcher studying NSL&M Board Member, the history and developgave a unique 19th-centument of sporting breeds ry manuscript this sumand dogs in general. The mer. Mittheilungen aus first is Hunde-Gallerie oder Dem Umfange der "She Said Yes" from The Corbould Sporting Alphabet by H. Courbould (c1901). Naturgetreue Darstellung Fahrkunde Herausgegeben rial-royal army of Austria in Italy, des Hundes (Dog Gallery, or Lifelike is a small folio of 88 pages, written who is identified by the initials ‘L.P.’ Representations of Dogs), published in a neat and elegant cursive hand. on the title page…. It is dedicated to by Theodor Götz, in Weimar, This donation, along with recent Johann Freyherrn [Baron] von Germany, 1838. The folio contains 32 18th-century acquisitions on coachFrimont, the Austrian cavalry generhand-colored engraved plates of ing, will serve the researcher who is al and commander of the Order of illustrations by artist Eduard Lobe interested in 18th and 19th-century Maria Theresa, who was at this time depicting 43 different European dog coaching, training carriage horses commander of the occupying breeds of the early 19th-century. and social customs. Austrian armies in Italy. The author Greenan obtained the rare book British bookseller Justin Croft, is likely to have been in his service. from bookseller Richard Hooper, of Ph.D., writes in his description of “The volume contains detailed Washington, D.C., who said, “It the acquisition by Alcalde, “An directions and comments on the difincludes a wide range of sizes from Austrian equestrian manuscript on ferent ways of harnessing, training Schossehunde, or lapdogs, including the management of carriages and and combining horses for different the Mopshund, or Pug, up to the their horses, [it] was written in 1820 occasions and requirements…. The by a senior lieutenant of the impecontinued on page 2