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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)
Creator
Jacob de Gheyn IIDutch painter and engraver (c.1565-1629) · 1565–1629
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- Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 397372
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