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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1670 - circa 1700; Classification(s): weapons, crossbow, inlay (process); Acquisition: bequeathed by Marlay, Charles Brinsley, 1912, C.B. Marlay Bequest [MAR.M.271-1912]
Description: Crossbow with steel bow painted green and gold, secured with gold-painted cord decorated with green pompoms. Wooden stock inlaid with bone/stag's horn, the design including squirrels, a swan, tritons, Cupid riding a dolphin, and a group of Venus, Cupid, and a putto riding a hippocamp. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | crossbow Unknown weapons | Temporal: | name=late 17th Century; start=1670; end=1700 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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