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Artillery Workshop

c. 1589 - c. 1593 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

In an artillery workshop several iron founders prepare a cannon. Above the melting furnace the inventor of gunpowder, Berthold Schwartz. In the background the siege of a city by cannons. The print has a Latin inscription and is part of a nineteen-part series on new inventions and discoveries.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

Subjects

print Berthold Schwartz firearms: cannon bombardment ~ siege gun-smith, rifle-maker, armourer

Credit lineArtilleriewerkplaats. c. 1589 - c. 1593. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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