Production: Unknown
Armour consisting of a close helmet, a breastplate, a backplate, a pair of knee-length tassets of which one is a modern restoration made of artificial leather, a pair of pauldrons and vambraces, and a pair of modern fingered gauntlets.
History note: Probably in the Stafford Collection sold by Christies, London, 28-30 May 1885, Lot 74 for £29. Subsequently in the Amherst Collection, sold by Christies, London, 11 December 1908, Lot 56, 32 gns. Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex.
J.S. Henderson Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-03-16) by Henderson, James Stewart
17th Century#
19th Century
Circa
1620
CE
-
1680
CE
Circa
1800
CE
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1900
CE
Dutch; the breastplate possibly English
The gauntlets are painted black over a bright surface. The remainder of the armour has a russet finish over a variably-pitted surface that may originally have been either bright or 'black from the hammer'.
Parts
Accession number: HEN.M.18A-F-1933
Primary reference Number: 18002
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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