id:			100136
accession number:	1919.65
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.65
updated:		2025-02-08 22:48:14.889000

Wheel-Lock Rifle, 1618. Germany, Bavaria (?), 17th century. Steel, brass, walnut stock inlaid with bone, horn and ivory; overall: 77.5 cm (30 1/2 in.); butt: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.); barrel: 49.8 cm (19 5/8 in.); bore: 1.5 cm (9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance 1919.65

title:				Wheel-Lock Rifle
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creation date:			1618
creation date earliest:		1618
creation date latest:		1618
current location:		210B Firearms
creditline:			Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance
copyright:			

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culture:	Germany, Bavaria (?), 17th century
technique:	steel, brass, walnut stock inlaid with bone, horn and ivory
department:	Medieval Art
collection:	MED - Arms & Armor
type:		Arms and Armor
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measurements: Overall: 77.5 cm (30 1/2 in.); Butt: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.); Barrel: 49.8 cm (19 5/8 in.); Bore: 1.5 cm (9/16 in.)
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	inscription:	on barrel: 1618, S.H.;  on stock: FF
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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

	[Sale: American Art Association, New York, Theodore Offerman Sale 
 (February 7-8, 1919), lot 374]
	date: 1919
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1919-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	American Art Association.<em> Ancient Arms and Weapons and Accoutrements</em>. 1919.
	page number: 	lot 374
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	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. 147, F10; Reproduced: Plate XXXV, F10
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n219

	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. 42
	url:		https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n49

	Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>[Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.
	page number: 	pp. 142 & 174; cat. no. 227
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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: 	cat. no. 227, p. 194
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