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A soldier ramming home powder and bullet with the ramrod, from the Marksmen series, plate 26, in Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)

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A soldier ramming home powder and bullet with the ramrod, from the Marksmen series, plate 26, in Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)

Jacques de Gheyn II|Jacques de Gheyn II|Robert Willemsz de Baudous

Date
published 1608
Medium
Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)
Dimensions
Sheet: 10 1/16 × 7 3/16 in. (25.5 × 18.3 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
49.95.1137
Credit line
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague|Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague|Netherlandish, 1574/5–1659

Subjects and terms

  • Soldiers
  • Firearms
  • Men

The Met object ID 433032. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.