Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)

after Jacques de Gheyn II Netherlandish
 Workshop of Jacques de Gheyn II Netherlandish
 possibly by Robert Willemsz de Baudous Netherlandish

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Series of 117 numbered plates from the drill manual for foot soldiers, "Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten end Speissen" (The Exercise of Arms). The series is divided into three sets: Marksmen (42 plates), Musketeers (43 plates), and Lansquenets (32 plates), with individual figures in drill posture on each plate. 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 within these editions. 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.

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