A soldier sliding his right hand along the training-pike, from the Lansquenets series, plate 22, in Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)
Jacques de Gheyn II|Jacques de Gheyn II
Date unknown · Engraving; second state of three (New Hollstein) · Drawings and Prints
From a series of 117 numbered plates from the military drill manual, "Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Speissen" (The Exercise of Arms). The series is divided into three sets: Marksmen (42 plates), Musketeers (43 plates), and Lansquenets (32 plates). The Exercise of Arms was first published as a complete volume in 1608, and several more editions followed shortly after, with Dutch, French, German, English, and Danish versions produced.
- Artist
- Jacques de Gheyn II|Jacques de Gheyn II
- Date
- Date unknown
- Medium
- Engraving; second state of three (New Hollstein)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
