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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1620 - 1630; Classification(s): armour, backplate (body armour), hammering, the backplate is made in one piece with an upstanding flange at its neck-opening and a flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, with incised decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Henderson, James Stewart, 1933-03-16, J.S. Henderson Bequest [HEN.M.17D-1933]
Description: Backplate, for use by a cuirassier. The backplate is made in one piece with an upstanding flange at its neck-opening and a flange at the waist. Its arm-openings, narrow neck-opening and waist-flange have plain inward turns. The turns at the arm-openings are bordered by pairs of incised lines. Riveted at each shoulder is a broad, modern, scaled shoulder-strap pierced at its distal end with three large, circular holes to engage the studs of the breastplate. Riveted at each side is a modern pierced stud that serves to receive the swivel-hooks riveted at each side of the breastplate. Pierced below each of the swivel-hooks is a pair of holes that probably originally served to retain a waist-belt. The area around the outer hole at the right side is much damaged. Riveted at the left and right sides of the waist-flange, respectively, are a pierced circular stud and a mushroom-shaped stud for the attachment of a missing skirt. Part of the composite three-quarter armour HEN.M.17A-G-1933. | 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: | armour Unknown backplate (body armour) | Temporal: | name=17th Century; start=1620; end=1630 | 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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