The soldier lifting the pike from his shoulder and moving it backwards, from the Lansquenets series, plate 27, in Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Portfolio: Waffenhandlung von den Rören Musquetten undt Spiessen / Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)
Artist: Jacques de Gheyn II|Jacques de Gheyn II|Robert Willemsz de Baudous
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague|Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague|Netherlandish, 1574/5–1659
Artist role: Artist|Artist|Artist
Artist nationality: Netherlandish|Netherlandish|Netherlandish
Date: published 1608
Medium: Engraving; second state of three (New Hollstein)
Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 7 3/8 in. (26.4 × 18.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Geography:  The Hague     
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession year: 1949