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Colt Walker Percussion Revolver, serial no. 1017
Designer Samuel Colt (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1814–1862)
Engraver Waterman Lilly Ormsby
Designer Captain Samuel Hamilton Walker
Manufacturer Eli Whitney Jr.
1847
- Medium
- Steel, brass, wood (walnut)
- Classification
- Firearms-Pistols-Revolvers
- Dimensions
- L. 15 1/2 in. (39.37 cm); L. of barrel 9 in. (22.86 cm); Cal. .44 in. (11 mm)
- Culture
- American, Whitneyville, Connecticut
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Gift of John E. Parsons, 1958
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
