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A soldier on guard shaping the match between his thumb and his forefinger, from the Marksmen series, plate 41, in "Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms)
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Credit lineA soldier on guard shaping the match between his thumb and his forefinger, from the Marksmen series, plate 41, in "Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms). Jacques de Gheyn II. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011. CC0.
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