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A soldier charging his caliver which is held stock down, from the Marksmen series, plate 23, in "Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms)
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Credit lineA soldier charging his caliver which is held stock down, from the Marksmen series, plate 23, in "Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms). 1608. Jacques de Gheyn II. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949. CC0.
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