Target gun used by the Guild of Arquebusiers in Amsterdam
Also titled Doelgeweer van het kloveniersgilde in Amsterdam
1675 - 1699
- Medium
- iron (metal), copper (metal), gilding (material), wood (plant material), mother of pearl, horn (animal material), brass (alloy)
- Classification
- target rifle
- Dimensions
- diameter 10.9 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased from the H.L. Visser Collection, with the support of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the Ministerie van OCenW, the Ministerie van Defensie, the VSBfonds, the BankGiro Lottery and the Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
The support stand on this target gun is in the form of a taloned eagle’s claw grasping a ball, a reference to the Guild of Arquebusiers in Amsterdam. Civic guardsmen would grasp the support with their left hand, while pressing their left elbow into their side. The gun has a tinder lock, which uses a piece of smouldering dried fungus, rather than a slow match, to ignite the powder.
