Subject: bravo bandit/mercenary
Culture: Venetian
Setting: Venetian republic 16th-17thc
Object: guns
Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor *
"Wheellock Pistol Steel, silver, and wood
Italian (probably Brescia), ca. 1625-30
From the French Royal Arms"
Virginia War Museum > Fowler Gallery of Arms *
"EUROPEAN (VENETIAN) WHEELOCK LONGARM, c. 1600 .58 caliber.
This type of stock work was found from the mid 16th century until the first half of the 17th." ...
