Soldier blowing the fuse and covering the pan with his fingers (no. 9), c. 1600, A soldier, full-length, to the right, holding a rudder (a certain type of firearm) with his left hand (no. 9), c. 1600. He brings the helm to his mouth to blow the fuse, using two fingers to cover the pan against sparks. Plate 9 in the instructions for handling the stirrer: Shortest instruction upon the contrefaictinges, touching the right use of calivers. Part of the illustrations in an English edition of J. de Gheyns Wapenhandelinghe: J. de Gheyn, The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes and pikes after the

---

Size: 3723px × 4918px
Location:
Photo credit: © Penta Springs / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 9, 1600, armes, blow, blowing, brings, calivers, calivres, contrefaictinges, cover, covering, de, edition, english, exercise, fingers, firearm, full-length, fuse, gheyn, gheyns, hand, handling, helm, holding, illustrations, instruction, instructions, left, mouth, pan, part, plate, rudder, shortest, soldier, sparks, stirrer, touching, type, wapenhandelinghe