Sporting Crossbow with Decoration of Hunting Scenes
The tiller (stock) is decorated with scenes of deer and boar being driven into nets, set up to make it easier to corner the prey. The decoration of the surface is completed by the delicate tendrils of a vine with little flowers.
Artifact
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id
81893
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| contentType |
contentType
object
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| stage |
stage
normalized
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| provenance |
provenance
Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 275; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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| rightsUri |
rightsUri
CC0
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| language |
language
en
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| pageCount |
pageCount
1
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| source |
source
import
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Source image fields (5)
| thumbnailUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_51.535_Fnt_BW.jpg |
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| largeImageUrl | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_51.535_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| iiifBase | https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_51.535_Fnt_BW.jpg |
| imageCount | 1 |
| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.535A |
Terms
Genre
crossbows