The Grenadier’s Drill — Slinging the Musket
€120
- Cartographer
- Pierre Jacques François Girard
- Date
- 1740
- Publication
- Traité des armes · Den Haag, P. de Hondt, 1740
- Plate
- 112e planche · p. 150
- Medium
- Hand-colored engraving heightened with gold
- Condition
- Light toning and scattered marks, with old handwriting in the upper margin and a diagonal crease in the right margin. The image shows through on the reverse.
About this piece
Heightened with gold!
Beautiful hand-colored engraving heightened with gold from Pierre Jacques François Girard’s Traité des armes. Den Haag, P. de Hondt, 1740.
112e planche · “Prenés la Grenadiere. Passés le fusil en bandroüliere”
Two figures show successive positions in the grenadier’s drill. The first holds the musket upright and lifts its sling. The second carries the musket diagonally across his body, leaving both hands free for the next part of the exercise.
The blue and scarlet coats are richly hand-colored, with gold accents on the coat facings, cuffs and equipment. Both figures wear yellow stockings and black shoes.
Girard’s illustrated manual documents small-sword fencing, foreign guards and the weapons and drills of the French military in the eighteenth century.