Foot-Combat Helm

Said to have come from Saint Mary's Church, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England;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 4–6, 9–11, 1888, no. 40, sold, for £85, to Riggs); William H. Riggs, Paris (1888–1913; his gift to MMA).

London. Alexandra Palace. "Londesborough Collection of Arms and Armour," 1875, no. 795.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Academy of the Sword: Illustrated Fencing Books 1500–1800," June 9, 1998–November 29, 1999.

Chaffers, William. Catalogue of the Londesborough Collection of Arms and Armour: with a Descriptive Account of the Antiquities and Works of Art, the Property of Lord Londesborough. London: Harrison and Sons, 1875. p. 29, no. 795.

de Cosson, Charles A. Ancient Helmets and Examples of Mail: A Catalogue of the Objects Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, June 3rd–16th 1880. London: The Institute, 1881. pp. 74–75, no. 81, fig. 77.

Thoumas, Charles Antoine. Les Anciennes Armées Françaises: Exposition Rétrospective Militaire Du Ministère De La Guerre En 1889. Vol. I. Paris: Librairie artistique H. Launette et cie, éditeurs--G. Boudet, successeur, 1890. fig. on p.3.

Laking, Guy Francis, and Charles Alexander Cosson. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries, edited by Francis Henry Cripps-Day. Vol. II. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920. p. 147, Fig. 486A.

Laking, Guy Francis, Charles Alexander Cosson, and Francis Henry Cripps-Day. A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries. Vol. V. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1922. p. 158.

Nickel, Helmut. "English Armour in the Metropolitan Museum of Art." Connoisseur 172, no. 693 pp.196–203, fig. 5.

La Rocca, Donald J., and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Academy of the Sword: Illustrated Fencing Books 1500–1800. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1998. p. 21, ill.

Christie, Manson & Woods. Collection of Armour and Arms, Carvings in Ivory. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, July 4–6 and July 9–11, 1888. p. 37, no. 440.

Jaquet, Daniel. "Hans Talhoffer’s Fight Book, a Sixteenth-Century Manuscript about the Art of Fighting." Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (2018), http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/fight/hd_fight.htm (August 2018). ill.