A soldier carrying his pike at the slope, from the Lansquenets series, plate 11, in Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)

Jacques de Gheyn II|Jacques de Gheyn II|Robert Willemsz de Baudous

published 1608 · Engraving; second state of three (New Hollstein) · Drawings and Prints

A soldier carrying his pike at the slope, from the Lansquenets series, plate 11, in Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms) — Jacques de Gheyn II|Jacques de Gheyn II|Robert Willemsz de Baudous

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. This version (49.95.1110-1227) belongs to the German translation of the third edition (titled "Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen"), which was published in The Hague in 1608.

Artist: Jacques de Gheyn II|Jacques de Gheyn II|Robert Willemsz de Baudous
Date: published 1608
Medium: Engraving; second state of three (New Hollstein)
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949