Eleven lansquenets practicing fencing with swords and spears on a sparse ground, a bird with a wreath flies above the scene, from Douce Ornament Prints Album I

Title

Eleven lansquenets practicing fencing with swords and spears on a sparse ground, a bird with a wreath flies above the scene, from Douce Ornament Prints Album I
Artist/maker

Virgil Solis (1514 - 1562) (printmaker)
Associated place

Nuremberg (place of publication)
Date

1541
Material and technique

engraving on laid paper
Object type

print;

ornament print
Dimensions

sheet 4.5 x 17.5 cm (height x width)
No. of items

1
Credit line

Bequeathed by Francis Douce, 1834.
Museum location

Western Art Print Room
Museum department

Western Art
Accession no.

WA1915.84.70.2

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