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Severance, 1916.696", "current_location": "210A Armor Court", "title": "Basket-Hilt Broadsword (\"Mortuary Sword\")", "creation_date": "hilt: c. 1640\u201350; blade: 1700s", "creation_date_earliest": 1635, "creation_date_latest": 1799, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Hilt: England; Blade: Germany, Solingen (?), Hilt: 17th Century; Blade: 18th Century"], "technique": "steel, chiseled; inlaid gilt- silver foil; wood and wire grip", "support_materials": [], "department": "Medieval Art", "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor", "type": "Arms and Armor", "measurements": "Overall: 101.6 cm (40 in.); Blade: 85.2 cm (33 9/16 in.); Hilt: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"length": 1.016, "length_inch": 40, "length_inch_fraction": 0.0}, "blade": {"length": 0.852, "length_inch": 33, "length_inch_fraction": 0.5625}, "hilt": {"width": 0.13, "width_inch": 5, "width_inch_fraction": 0.125}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "ANDRIA FERRARA", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": "On the blade.", "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 190103, "title": "Armor Court Reinstallation", "description": "<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).", "opening_date": "1998-09-10T00:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612-1671), Yorkshire, England (purportedly)", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Sir Cuthbert Sharp (1781-1849), Newcastle, England", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "Prince Augustus Frederick (1773-1843), Duke of Sussex, England", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "George Francis William Henry Denison (1892-1920), Earl of Londesborough, England", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "Edwin J. Brett (1828-1895), London, England", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "S.J. Whawell (1871-1899), London, England", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 6}, {"description": "Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "?-1916", "sortorder": 7}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1916-", "sortorder": 8}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The ornate basket hilt which protects the hand, is chiseled with leafy decorative scrollwork and grotesque masks.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The decoration on this sword's hilt includes an image of King Charles I of England (beheaded in 1649). Because the image resembles the king's death mask, this sword is known as a \"mortuary sword.\" It may have belonged to Sir Thomas Fairfax, a general of the Parliamentary cavalry during the English Civil War (1642-51). Large, double-edged broadswords, designed for heavy cavalry use, were common from the 1600s through the 1800s.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60761687"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1916.696-basket-hilt-broadswo"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour</em>. Vol. 4, <em>17th to 19th century and a few pieces of iron work</em>. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (211) 230", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour4/page/n207"}, {"citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 121-122, E79; Reproduced: Plate XXX, E79", "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n185"}, {"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Helen Ives Gilchrist. <em>Handbook of the Severance Collection of Arms and Armor</em>. 2d ed., 1948.", "page_number": "Reproduction: p. 40", "url": "https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n47"}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.", "page_number": "p. 105; cat. no. 128, p. 168", "url": null}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen. \"The Armor Court.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>38, no. 7 (September 1998): 4-7.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1998-07/page/4/mode/2up"}, {"citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.", "page_number": "cat. no. 166, p. 190", "url": null}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.696", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_web.jpg", "width": "464", "height": "900", "filesize": "", "filename": "1916.696_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_print.jpg", "width": "1753", "height": "3400", "filesize": "", "filename": "1916.696_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_full.tif", "width": "2820", "height": "5470", "filesize": "", "filename": "1916.696_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "720", "height": "893", "filesize": "316449"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2740", "height": "3400", "filesize": "5235799"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt0_full.tif", "width": "4029", "height": "5000", "filesize": "60457540"}, "date_created": "2007-04-25T20:21:05", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt1_web.jpg", "width": "737", "height": "900", "filesize": ""}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt1_print.jpg", "width": "2783", "height": "3400", "filesize": ""}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt1_full.tif", "width": "4370", "height": "5339", "filesize": ""}, "date_created": "2007-04-25T20:21:05", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt2_web.jpg", "width": "1097", "height": "893", "filesize": "694794"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt2_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2767", "filesize": "6302873"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt2_full.tif", "width": "5000", "height": "4069", "filesize": "61059760"}, "date_created": "2007-04-25T20:21:05", "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt3_web.jpg", "width": "460", "height": "893", "filesize": "208735"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt3_print.jpg", "width": "1056", "height": "2048", "filesize": "1257618"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt3_full.tif", "width": "1056", "height": "2048", "filesize": "6490588"}, "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt4_web.jpg", "width": "720", "height": "893", "filesize": "339174"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt4_print.jpg", "width": "2740", "height": "3400", "filesize": "5383811"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt4_full.tif", "width": "4029", "height": "5000", "filesize": "60455180"}, "annotation": ""}, {"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt5_web.jpg", "width": "1097", "height": "893", "filesize": "694418"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt5_print.jpg", "width": "3400", "height": "2767", "filesize": "5967603"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.696/1916.696_alt5_full.tif", "width": "5000", "height": "4069", "filesize": "61067732"}, "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. 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