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{
    "localId": "100136",
    "label": "Wheel-Lock Rifle",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "100136",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Wheel-Lock Rifle",
    "description": "Made originally as a petronel pistol, this firearm seems to have been refitted with a new stock sometime during the 17th century to convert it into a rifle, most likely for a child's use.",
    "date": "1618",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.65",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60780813"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.65/1919.65_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.65/1919.65_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.65/1919.65_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "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.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany, Bavaria (?), 17th century"
    ],
    "accession": "1919.65"
}

{
    "tec": "steel, brass, walnut stock inlaid with bone, horn and ivory",
    "tombstone": "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",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "on barrel: 1618, S.H.;  on stock: FF"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "The artisan who made this rifle used brass, bone, horn, and ivory to create decorative elements like animals involved in the hunt, fruits, and other details. If you look beneath the gun, you will see a goose or duck and a vase of flowers near the trigger.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "American Art Association.<em> Ancient Arms and Weapons and Accoutrements</em>. 1919.",
            "page_number": "lot 374"
        },
        {
            "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. 147, F10; Reproduced: Plate XXXV, F10",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n219"
        },
        {
            "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. 42",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/HandbookArmsArmor1948/page/n49"
        },
        {
            "citation": "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"
        },
        {
            "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. 227, p. 194"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1919.65",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:25:20.703000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.65/1919.65_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 100136,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "med": "steel, brass, walnut stock inlaid with bone, horn and ivory",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1919.65/1919.65_web.jpg",
    "mediaId": "7c5c2622aed1d41c"
}