Plate from "Nouveaux dessins d'arquebuseries..."
This plate comes from a series of designs of ornament for gunsmiths. It shows four butt plates for long guns, trigger guards and others fittings. The first butt plate on the left has a grotesque mask and a circular medallion with 3 fleur-de-lis, crowned and enclosed in an order collar. The second butt plate is decorated with an oval antique profile bust medallion and topped by a grotesque mask. The third is decorated with the bust of a female, likely Diana because of the presence of a bow and arrows, a sun in a round medallion and a grotesque mask at the top. The last butt plate shows a seated fox with one leg up, a hunting panoply at the bottom and two dolphins at the top.
Artwork Details
- Title: Plate from "Nouveaux dessins d'arquebuseries..."
- Series/Portfolio: 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: Sheet: 6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16 × 23.9 cm)
- Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
- Object Number: 49.50.413
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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