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Title:Armor
Date:ca. 1560
Culture:German
Medium:Steel
Dimensions:H. as mounted 67 1/2 in. (171.5 cm); Wt. 58 lb. 8 oz. (26.65 kg)
Classification:Armor for Man
Credit Line:Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, Bequest of Bashford Dean, 1928
Accession Number:29.150.10
[Sale, Ancient Armour and Arms recently received from Spain, Christie & Manson, London, February 26, 1840, no. 290]; Albert Denison, 1st Lord Londesborough, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England (until d. 1860; by descent to his son, the 1st Earl of Londesborough); William Henry Forester Denison, 1st Earl of Londesborough, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, England (1860–88; Armour and Arms . . . of the Right Hon. Earl of Londesborough, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, July 4–9, 1888, no. 147, sold for £410); John Newton Mappin, Headley Park, Epsom, Surrey, England (until d. 1913; his estate sale, Arms and Armour collected by the late John Newton Mappin, Esq. of Headley Park, Epsom and now sold by order of the Executors of his Widow, the late Mrs. Ellen E. Mappin, Christie's, London, July 21–22, 1925, no. 126); Bashford Dean, New York (until d. 1928; his bequest to MMA).
Oxenham & Sons. Ancient Armour and Arms, Celebrated As the Gothic Armoury, Cap-a-Pie Suits of Knights' Armour, Engraved Tilting Suits, Indian Armour and Arms, Together with the Remainder of the Paraphernalia of the Grand Tournment at Eglinton. London: Oxenham & Sons, April 29–May 1, 1841. no. 290.
Christie's, London. Arms and Armour. London: Christie's, London, July 20-21, 1925. frontispiece, ill.
Cripps-Day, Francis Henry. A Record of Armour Sales, 1881–1924. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1925. p. xlix, fig. Q, ill.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stephen V. Grancsay, and Carl Otto von Kienbusch. The Bashford Dean Collection of Arms and Armor in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Portland, ME: Southworth Press for the Armor and Arms Club of New York City, 1933. pp. 98–100, no. 15, pl. XXVI, ill.
Mayor, A. Hyatt. "The Gifts that Made the Museum." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (November 1957), p. 93, ill.
Christie, Manson & Woods. Collection of Armour and Arms, Carvings in Ivory. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, July 4–6 and July 9–11, 1888. no. 147.
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