Plate from Nouveaux dessins d'arquebuseries...
Artist and engraver De Lacollombe French
Publisher Gilles Demarteau French
Not on view
This plate comes from a series of designs for gunsmiths. It shows the butt of a long gun decorated with arabesques, grotesque animals, foliate scrolls and a cartouche with three fleur-de-lis, palms and a crown. Other designs on the plate include a panoply of war with a profile bust in antique armor, a wrist escutcheon with lions, a crown and a bird, a side plate with a hare and an oval medallion with Medusa's head. At the bottom also are a frizzen, an oval medallion with a sun head, a side plate with a profile bust wearing a laurel wreath.
