IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 17759 accession number: HEN.M.8C-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 7 January 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Backplate with restored skirt, for field use, with etched decoration. The backplate is made in one piece with a short flange at the waist. It is slightly shaped to the shoulder-blades and the hollow of the back. Its neck-opening, arm-openings and waist-flange have plain inward turns. A modern shoulder-strap is attached by a single round-headed rivet at each shoulder. A modern strap, forming a waist-belt is riveted at each side of the waist. The left strap terminates in a modern double-ended, tongued iron buckle. The backplate has suffered a number of small to large rust-perforations; three of which are repaired with riveted internal patches. Its metal shows extensive delamination and cracking. Attached to the waist-flange by a single rivet at each side is a modern skirt of one lame with file-roped inward turns at its straight lower and lateral edges. The backplate is decorated with bands and borders of etched trophies involving winged herms, dolphins and cartouches depicting human figures all on a blackened ground. The junction of the upper end of the central vertical band with the border of the neck is decorated with a pair of medallions depicting confronted male and female classical busts. The medallions are flanked by a pair of confronted winged dragons. The main bands and the borders are in every case enclosed by groups of narrower bands, of which some are decorated with guilloche or roping. The lower and lateral edge of the modern skirt are decorated with etched bands of trophies on a stippled and blackened ground. This is enclosed above by three narrower bands of which the central one is decorated with guilloche. Part of the composite half armour HEN.M.8A-F-1933 title: backplate (body armour) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/17759 PEOPLE ------------------- figures winged herms SUBJECTS ------------------- busts trophies dragons busts trophies dragons TECHNIQUES ---------- the backplate is made in one piece with a short flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted with etched and file-roped decoration hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- forming CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1610 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1610 culture: 16th Century-17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 17.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 41.0 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.32 dimension: Width units: cm value: 36.2