Collection record · Objects & craft
Wheel-Lock from a Hunting Gun
The collection record classifies this work as arms and armor. It is dated 1600s. Recorded culture or place: Germany.
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- Museum title
- Wheel-Lock from a Hunting Gun
- Date
- 1600s
- Culture / origin
- Germany
- Materials and technique
- steel, engraved
- Dimensions
- Overall: 22.7 x 16.5 x 5.8 cm (8 15/16 x 6 1/2 x 2 5/16 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1916.39
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Engraving is one of the oldest methods for decorating metal objects and often appears on high-quality firearms, such as this wheel lock engraved with images of the hunt. Engraving tools used by goldsmiths included steel burins and punches, whose exact specifications varied across Europe and determined, to some extent, regional variations to early engravings on paper. The name of the locksmith (a specialist in springs and triggers), Georg Bernardton Hauser, is engraved on the wheel.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance · CC0
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