print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 2AA+,a.52.1
- Title
- Series: Verscheide Stucken en Cieraden (Decorations for Firearms)
- Description
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Decorated title-page; cartouche flanked by two trumpeting winged females, personifications of Victory; below two putti holding palms and surrounded by weapons and other military paraphenallia. 1692
Etching
- Production date
- 1692
- Dimensions
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Height: 155 millimetres
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Width: 235 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The titleplate to the complete set of eight plates in the BM (see Fuhring 1498-1502, incomplete). Fuhring has discovered that the set was copied from a French set of Claude Simonin, published in Paris in 1684. For the original set, see his cat.1833.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- The set 2AA*.a.51.1 to 8 is recorded as 'Plusieurs pièces et ornemens d'arquebuserie' in Hans Sloane's library catalogue p.3237, as Pr.867 (later reshelved as Pr.1108). It was acquired in 1732 together with two other sets of ornament, all of which were in the single volume 2AA*.a.52, which was later split up.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2AA+,a.52.1