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Armour, necklace and shoulder pad of karacena armour; drawing by Aleksander Lesser 1814–1884. Inscribed, noted. Subject: karacenas armor, militaria — armours, breastplates, shoulder pads, knightly armours, necklace. Medium: drawing on cardboard glued across the entire surface onto paper of similar dimensions, paper glued at top edge onto grey-toned cardboard. Date: 1830–1883. Dimensions: drawing height 22.5 cm, width 24.4 cm; cardboard height 35.8 cm, width 25.8 cm., A watercolor and ink illustration of a set of armor pieces on a beige paper background, showing a large rounded torso piece with overlapping silver-gray scale-like plates edged in brown, a collar area with a brown circular neck opening and small decorative gold accents, and a scalloped lower edge with brown trim and gold circular decorations; to the right a matching shoulder or arm guard with the same silver-gray scales, brown edging, and a gold medallion with a face motif near the top, plus brown leather straps; above that a smaller separate depiction of a collar piece with silver-gray scales, brown edges, a gold sun-like emblem, and gold trim; the image palette includes silver-gray, brown, gold, tan, beige, and touches of black for outlines.

Crédit

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Notre référence

LZT26A33_008

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

40.7Mo (1.8Mo) / 33.1cm x 30.8cm / 3914 x 3632 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Armour necklace shoulder pad karacena armour drawing Aleksander Lesser 1814–1884 Inscribed noted Subject karacenas armor militaria armours breastplates shoulder pads knightly armours Medium cardboard glued across entire surface paper dimensions paper glued top edge grey-toned cardboard Date 1830–1883 Dimensions height 22.5 cm width 24.4 cm height 35.8 cm width 25.8 cm watercolor ink illustration set armor pieces beige paper background showing large rounded torso piece overlapping silver-gray scale- plates edged brown collar area brown circular neck opening small decorative gold accents scalloped lower edge brown trim gold circular decorations right matching shoulder arm guard silver-gray scales brown edging gold medallion face motif near top plus brown leather straps smaller separate depiction collar piece brown edges gold sun- emblem gold trim image palette includes silver-gray tan beige touches black outlines.