Title: 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)
Object type: Print
Portfolio: Wapenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten Ende Spiessen (The Exercise of Arms)
Artist: After Jacques de Gheyn II 
Artist bio: Netherlandish, Antwerp 1565–1629 The Hague
Artist nationality: Netherlandish
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Engraving; second state of two (New Hollstein)
Dimensions: plate: 10 1/4 x 7 3/16 in. (26 x 18.2 cm)
sheet: 15 1/16 x 10 1/8 in. (38.3 x 25.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Soldiers, term: Weapons