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Overall, with frizzen raised to 45 degrees
Close-up of the lock, outside, frizzen raised to 45 degrees
Close-up of top plate
Butt-plate
Bottom plate (end of barrel)
Trigger guard, from below
Artwork Details
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Title:Carbine with Flintlock alla Fiorentina
Steel-chiseler:Carlo Bottarelli (Italian, Brescia, active ca. 1660–90)
Barrelsmith:Giovanni Lazzarino Cominazzo (Italian, Brescia, active mid-17th century)
Date:ca. 1660–70
Geography:Brescia
Culture:Italian, Brescia
Medium:Steel, wood (walnut)
Dimensions:L. 37 3/4 in. (95.9 cm)
Classification:Firearms
Credit Line:Gift of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1949
Accession Number:49.163.5
Signature: Signed on top of the breech: ·:GIO:LAZARINO:COMINAZZO:·;
On the lower edge of the lockplate: Carlo Botarelli.
Marking: Marked on the under side of the barrel: L.
Ex. coll.: Rutherford Stuyvesant, Allamuchy, New Jersey.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor," February 6–April 16, 1911, no. 199.
Seattle, Wash. Seattle Art Museum. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 11, 1982–June 6, 1982, no. 103.
Denver, Colo. Denver Art Museum. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," July 18–October 10, 1982, no. 103.
San Antonio, Tex. Witte Museum of the San Antonio Museum Association. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 13, 1982–February 5, 1983, no. 103.
Minneapolis, Minn. Minneapolis Institute of Arts. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 24–July 31, 1983, no. 103.
San Francisco. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," November 5, 1983–January 28, 1984, no. 103.
Detroit, Mich. Detroit Institute of Arts. "The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 4–June 17, 1984, no. 103.
Dean, Bashford, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February the Sixth to April the Sixteenth. New York: Gilliss Press, 1911. Cat. no. 199.
Dean, Bashford. The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherford Stuyvesant, 1843–1909. New York: privately printed, 1914. pp. 125–6, cat. no. 170, pl. XLII, fig. 1701-h.
Hayward, J. F. "L'Ameria Reale de Torina/Historical arms and armour in the Armeria Reale of Turin." Bolletino della Società Piemontese D'Archeologia e di Belle Arti, Nuova serie, II p. 72, nos. 1–4.
Nickel, Helmut. Warriors and Worthies: Arms and Armor Through the Ages. New York: Atheneum, 1969. p. 85, ill.
Gaibi, Agostino. Armi da Fuoco Italiane dal Medioevo al Risorgimento. 2nd ed. Milan: Bramante Editrice, 1978. fig. 350.
Morin, Marco, and Robert Held. Beretta: La Dinastia Industriale più Antica al Mondo = The World's Oldest Industrial Dynasty. Chiasso, Switzerland: Acquafresca Editrice, 1980. p. 107, fig. 99, ill.
Morin, Marco. Armi Antiche. 1st ed. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1982. pp. 3–38, figs. 6–9, ill.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Helmut Nickel, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Leonid Tarassuk, and American Federation of Arts. The Art of Chivalry: European Arms and Armor from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Exhibition. New York: The Federation, 1982. pp. 153–55, no. 103, ill.
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