The soldier sliding his right hand along the training-pike, from the Lansquenets series, plate 22, in "Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms)

Workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II Netherlandish

Possibly by Robert Willemsz de Baudous Netherlandish

1608

Not on view

From a series of 117 numbered plates from the military drill manual, "Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Speissen" (The Exercise of Arms). The series is divided into three sets: Marksmen (42 plates), Musketeers (43 plates), and Lansquenets (32 plates). The Exercise of Arms was first published as a complete volume in 1608, and several more editions followed shortly after, with Dutch, French, German, English, and Danish versions produced. This version (49.95.1110-1227) belongs to the German translation of the third edition (titled "Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen"), which was published in The Hague in 1608.

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Title: The soldier sliding his right hand along the training-pike, from the Lansquenets series, plate 22, in "Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms)
Series/Portfolio: Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)
Artist: After Jacques de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague)
Artist: Workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague)
Artist: Possibly by Robert Willemsz de Baudous (Netherlandish, 1574/5–1659)
Published in: The Hague
Date: 1608
Medium: Engraving; second state of three (New Hollstein)
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 5/16 in. (26.3 × 18.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Object Number: 49.95.1218
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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