Wheel-Lock Hunting Rifle

1670 (Baroque) 43 1/2 in. (110.5 cm) Citation Source image

Maucher (whose initials are on the stock) was a carver as well as stock maker. The stock is carved in relief with motifs of a hunter with his rifle and a young woman who carries a hunting hawk on her arm (a favorite form of hunting for women) and a spear. In the 1600s, women d...

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Richard Zschille, Grossenhain, Saxony; Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, American Art Association, New York, 1924, no. 265; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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