id:			97025
accession number:	1916.672
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.672
updated:		2024-03-26 01:56:19.313000

Wheel-Lock Hunting Pistol, 1578. South Germany, 16th century. Steel, walnut stock with engraved stag horn; ball butt; overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.); barrel: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.); bore: 1.4 cm (9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1916.672

title:				Wheel-Lock Hunting Pistol
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creation date:			1578
creation date earliest:		1578
creation date latest:		1578
current location:		210B Firearms
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
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culture:	South Germany, 16th century
technique:	steel, walnut stock with engraved stag horn; ball butt
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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measurements: Overall: 54.6 cm (21 1/2 in.); Barrel: 31.8 cm (12 1/2 in.); Bore: 1.4 cm (9/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	near lock plate: HSVZ 1578
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Armor Court Reinstallation
	opening date:   1998-09-10T00:00:00
	<i>Armor Court Reinstallation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	George Francis William Henry Denison, Early of Londesborough (1892-1920), Yorkshire, England
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	Frank Gair Macomber (1849-1941), Boston, MA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: -1916
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1916-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of Arms and Armour. </em>[Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], 1900.
	page number: 	Cat. no. 416
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour1/page/n219/mode/2up

	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: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.
	page number: 	Mention: p. 144, F3; Reproduced: Plate XXXIV, F3
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n214

	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. 41
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n47

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	141, 174
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	Olsen, Kirstin. <em>All Things Shakespeare: An Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's World</em>. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002.
	page number: 	268
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	Fliegel, Stephen N.<em> Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.
	page number: 	193
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