A soldier blowing on a match, from the Musketeers series, plate 40, in Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen

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A soldier blowing on a match, from the Musketeers series, plate 40, in Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms), Engraving; third state of five (New Hollstein), plate: 10 9/16 x 7 1/2 in. ( x cm), Prints, Jacques de Gheyn II (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague), From a series of 117 numbered plates from the military drill manual, 'Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Speissen' (The Exercise of Arms). The series is divided into three sets: Marksmen (42 plates), Musketeers (43 plates), and Lansquenets (32 plates

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