Plate from Nouveaux dessins d'arquebuseries...
Artist and engraver De Lacollombe French
Publisher Gilles Demarteau French
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This plate comes from a series of designs for gunsmiths. On the left of the plate is the butt plate of a long gun, on the right the butt cap of a pistol, a frizzen and an escutcheon. There are more general ornaments at the center. Those are made with foliate scrolls, bandwork and grotesque masks.