A soldier on guard shaping the match between his thumb and his forefinger, from the Marksmen series, plate 41, in "Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms)

Jacob de Gheyn II

A soldier on guard shaping the match between his thumb and his forefinger, from the Marksmen series, plate 41, in "Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen" (The Exercise of Arms)

Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · CC0 1.0

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