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Jacques de Gheyn II|Jacques de Gheyn II|Robert Willemsz de Baudous

A soldier ramming home powder and bullet with the ramrod, from the Marksmen series, plate 26, in Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)

published 1608
Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)
25.5 × 18.3 cm (10 × 7.2 in)

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