Identification title(s): the exercise with shield and spear: the soldier holds the shield with the left hand in front of the body (no. 6), 1618. Object type: print object number: bi-b-fm-003-4. Catalog reference: fmh 1116-b/6. Description: the exercise with shield and spear: the soldier holds the shield with the left hand in front of the body, 1618. Part of the illustrations in: adam van breen, nassauische waffenhandelung, 1618, plate no. 6. Military around 1600. Manufacture. Manufacturer: after a design by: adam van breen, printmaker: anonymous. Place of manufacture: northern netherlands. Dating: 1616 - 1618. Physical features: engraving, hand-colored. Material: paper technique: hand coloring / engraving (printing process). Dimensions: plate edge: h 260 mm × w 190 mmexplanationillustration in: adam van breen, nassauische waffenhandelung [incomplete copy], 1618?, plate 6. This is a german edition of adam van breen's de nassausche wapen-handelinge, van schilt, spies, rappier ende targe: both figuerlick depicted, and the frame depicted the new order [of]. Maurits van nassau, the hague, [aert meuris] 1618. In the copy in the collection of the rijksmuseum research library (326 f 23). Subject: what: handling of weapons ~ military training, weapons, eighty years' war. When: 1600 - 1618. Who: maurits (prince of orange). Acquisition: purchase 1881. Date: between 1616 and 1618.
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