3-021-045 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Arms and armour from the Meyrick Collection, South Kensington, 1869. Pieces on display '...in the galleries belonging to the Great Exhibition Building of 1862...1: a very curious old-fashioned carbine; 2: a sword, with a hilt of peculiar form; 3: the head of a partisan or halberd; 4: a helmet, with vizor like a man's face; 5: the steel gorget of the Duke of Ferrara, decorated in repoussé work, gilt and damascene; 6: the round shield or target formerly belonging to Francis I. of France; of steel, embossed with sculptures, representing the retreat of the English to Calais, in the year 1524...designed by Giulio Romano, and executed by Filippo Negrolio; 7: a musket of the kind called a "snaphaunce," but a revolver with eight chambers; German, probably seventeenth century; 8: an English two-handed sword of the time of Richard III; 9: the bâton of the Duke of Alva, made hollow to contain papers; 10: an English battle-axe, the handle of which is a gun; of the time of Henry V; 11: a mounted figure, attired cap à pièd in a complete suit of bright steel armour, fluted; the horse being also equipped with champ-front or head-piece and neckpieces, and with housings of Genoa velvet. This armour is of Nuremburg manufacture, and of the sixteenth century'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.