Soldier Carrying His Spike Nearly Horizontally Above His Right Shoulder (No. 9), c. 1600, Jacob de Gheyn (II) (workshop of), 1597 - 1608 Canvas Print

Soldier Carrying His Spike Nearly Horizontally Above His Right Shoulder (No. 9), c. 1600, Jacob de Gheyn (II) (workshop of), 1597 - 1608 Canvas Print

A soldier, feet out, to the right, who carries a skewer (lance) almost horizontally above his right shoulder (no. 9), c. 1600. His hands far apart around the skewer. This is the second action for lifting the skewer to the shoulder and carrying it horizontally. Plate 9 in the instructions for handling the skewer: Brief instruction upon the contrefaictinges, concerning the right use, of all what a Souldier needeth to know in handling of the Pike. Part of the illustrations in an English edition of J. de Gheyns Wapenhandelinghe: J. de Gheyn, The exercise of armes for calivres, muskettes and pikes after the ordre of Maurits Prince of Orange, 's-Gravenhage 1608. Martial being around 1600.

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