3-021-602 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Meyrick Collection at South Kensington: visor, beevor of a helmet, probably Spanish, sixteenth century, 1869. A specimen from '...the collection of ancient arms and armour formed by Sir Samuel Meyrick, of Goodrich Court, Herefordshire, which is now to be seen in the Great Exhibition Palace at South Kensington...The Spanish visor, or beevor, the face-piece of a helmet, made of russet steel, is of the sixteenth century; and Don Quixote would have been glad to possess it instead of that frail one he contrived to make of pasteboard'. From "Illustrated London News", 1869.