Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "4124",
    "label": "Executioner's Sword",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1405"
}

{
    "id": "4124",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1405",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Executioner's Sword",
    "description": "Shark skin grip , iron mounts, etched blade with St. George and the executioner.",
    "provenance": "Exhibited in the Royal Castle of Nuremberg (owner: private antiquarian and entrepreneur, Geuter); Eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot, 1890, by purchase (negotiated by dealer Julius D. Ichenhauser); Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1905, by purchase (negotiated by dealer Julius D. Ichenhauser); Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/51.1405",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "swords"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_51.1405_SideA_NF_T93.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_51.1405_SideA_NF_T93.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_51.1405_SideA_NF_T93.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Inscription translation from German] The world steers toward mischief and I execute judgement. / When I lift up my sword",
        "God give the poor sinner eternity."
    ],
    "med": "iron, shark skin",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_51.1405_SideA_NF_T93.jpg",
    "mediaId": "2ce41a94e86562fd"
}