Title

Crossbow

Caption

Crossbow (Halbe Rüstung) with Winder (Cranequin), German, Dresden, dated 1742.Made for the court of Friedrich August II, Elector of Saxony from 1733 to 1763

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM21A16_228

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

8,3Mb (226,5Kb) / 6,5in x 4,9in / 1959 x 1483 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany close up wood sport German country metal steel weapon weapons museum color horn decoration decorative wooden antique military war location century Dresden archery archer concept close-up warfare crossbow Colour The Met Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art weaponry 18th century Eighteenth Century history bowman object wood Saxony Heritage Art staghorn bow gun Johann Gottfried Hanisch Hanisch Johann Gottfried Johann Gottfried H?nisch the Elder Johann Gottfried Hanisch the Elder Hanisch Johann Gottfried Steel wood staghorn copper alloy hemp wool gold iron alloy Frederick Augustus II of Saxony Frederick Augustus II of Frederick Augustus II