Plate from Nouveaux dessins d'arquebuseries...
This plate comes from a series of designs for gunsmiths. The most prominent pieces are the flintlock with grotesque mascarons, snakes and a hunting scene, and the butt cap with an oval medallion of the head of Medusa. Also on the plate are a cartouche with a sun mask, another with an antique profile, a wrist escutcheon with a crown and a dolphin, two sideplates and a frizzen with an eagle holding thunderbolts and standing on a lyre.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate from Nouveaux dessins d'arquebuseries...
- Artist and engraver: De Lacollombe (French, Paris, active ca. 1702–ca. 1736)
- Publisher: Gilles Demarteau (French, Liège 1722–1776 Paris)
- Date: 1705–36
- Medium: Etching
- Dimensions: Plate: 6 9/16 × 9 5/16 in. (16.7 × 23.6 cm)
Sheet: 7 7/8 × 10 3/4 in. (20 × 27.3 cm) - Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
- Object Number: 54.636.10(2)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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