Identification title(s): the exercise with the targe and rapier: the soldier holds the drawn rapier no higher than his face (no. 5), 1618. Object type: print object number: bi-b-fm-003-25. Catalog reference: fmh 1116-b/37. Description: the exercise with the targe and rapier: the soldier holds the drawn rapier no higher than his face, 1618. Part of the illustrations in: adam van breen, nassauische waffenhandelung / kurtzer bericht unnd ahnzeigungh auff die ab-bildungh der figuren / den recht brauch alles des jenigen bereltend / so einem soldaten von nöten / in der handlung der targa, with dem degen, 1618, plate no. 5. 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 255 mm × w 187 mmexplanationillustration in: adam van breen, nassauische waffenhandelung / kurtzer bericht unnd ahnzeigungh auff die ab-bildungh der figuren / den rechts brauch alles des jenigen concerning / so einem soldaten von nöten / in der handlung der targa, met dem degen [incomplete copy], 1618?, plate 5. This is a german edition of adam van breen's de nassausche wapen-handelinge, van schilt, spies, rappier ende targe: beyde figuerlick depicted, and the frame after the new arrangement [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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