File:Clevelandart 1916.697.jpg
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Summary
Rapier
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| Artist |
Clemens Horn |
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| Title |
Rapier |
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| Description |
This weapon has an especially handsome configuration of hilt, pommel, quillons, and guard. The blade is also very finely wrought and bears the mark (a unicorn head) of the German swordsmith, Clemens Horn, of Solingen, a town near Düsseldorf. The Latin inscription on the blade reads in translation: "Neither without cause, nor fearfully/Between arms and silent law/ Prize truth and the fight for one's country." |
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| Date | 1615 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Steel, blued and gilded | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Overall: 111.1 cm (43 3/4 in.); Blade: 89.2 cm (35 1/8 in.); Quillions: 21.3 cm (8 3/8 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Medieval Art |
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| Accession number |
1916.697 |
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| Place of creation | Germany, Solingen, 17th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.697 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
 
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This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. |
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This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project with the Cleveland Museum of Art. See the Open Access at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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| current | 11:31, 21 January 2019 | | 1,130 × 2,048 (1.32 MB) | Madreiling | pattypan 18.02 |
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