Sujet

Arms and armour from the Meyrick Collection, South Kensington, 1869. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Arms and armour from the Meyrick Collection, South Kensington, 1869. Pieces on display '...in the galleries belonging to the Great Exhibition Building of 1862...1: a very curious old-fashioned carbine; 2: a sword, with a hilt of peculiar form; 3: the head of a partisan or halberd; 4: a helmet, with vizor like a man's face; 5: the steel gorget of the Duke of Ferrara, decorated in repoussé work, gilt and damascene; 6: the round shield or target formerly belonging to Francis I. of France; of steel, embossed with sculptures, representing the retreat of the English to Calais, in the year 1524...designed by Giulio Romano, and executed by Filippo Negrolio; 7: a musket of the kind called a "snaphaunce," but a revolver with eight chambers; German, probably seventeenth century; 8: an English two-handed sword of the time of Richard III; 9: the bâton of the Duke of Alva, made hollow to contain papers; 10: an English battle-axe, the handle of which is a gun; of the time of Henry V; 11: a mounted figure, attired cap à pièd in a complete suit of bright steel armour, fluted; the horse being also equipped with champ-front or head-piece and neckpieces, and with housings of Genoa velvet. This armour is of Nuremburg manufacture, and of the sixteenth century'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A34_164

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

58,9Mo (2,8Mo) / 31,4cm x 47,0cm / 3709 x 5547 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Germany unusual Italy Italian technology German arts country art British tools tool weapon weapons gun guns museum medieval armour war Renaissance location collection century sword helmet Britain newspapers press print artefacts blade swords SHIELD artefact concept artifacts artifact B&W axe warfare engraved engraving 19th century suit of armour black & white black and white B W weaponry mediaeval Middle Ages 16th century nineteenth century sixteenth century The Print Collector horse armour Illustrated London News South Kensington Museum ILN newspaper Unknown Samuel Rush Meyrick Meyrick Samuel Rush Sir Samuel Rush barding 19th-century The Illustrated London News Meyrick Collection