Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619) ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915 Made under the direction of Jacob Halder British Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619) was a prominent Elizabethan soldier and courtier. Also an enthusiastic jouster, he was praised in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (published 1596) as an example of chivalry armor was part of a large garniture, which probably had exchange pieces to adapt it for cavalry, infantry, and possibly also tournament use. It was made in the royal workshops at Greenwich about 1595–96, perhaps in anticipation of Scudamore’s part
Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619) ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915 Made under the direction of Jacob Halder British Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619) was a prominent Elizabethan soldier and courtier. Also an enthusiastic jouster, he was praised in Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene (published 1596) as an example of chivalry armor was part of a large garniture, which probably had exchange pieces to adapt it for cavalry, infantry, and possibly also tournament use. It was made in the royal workshops at Greenwich about 1595–96, perhaps in anticipation of Scudamore’s participation in the 1596 naval attack on Cadiz, Spain. Scudamore’s portrait, still in the possession of his descendants, shows him wearing this remains of this and the earlier Scudamore armor (Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number )were found, badly damaged and incomplete, in 1909, in Holme Lacy, the ancestral home of the Scudamores. The armors were restored and completed in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1915, by the armorer Daniel Tachaux. The parts made by Tachaux include the breastplate, backplate, and Armor of Sir James Scudamore (1558–1619). British, Greenwich. ca. 1595–96; restored and completed, 1915. Steel, gold, leather. Greenwich. Armor for Man
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