FENCER WITH SWORD AND DAGGER, drawing in ink and gouache on a page from a Stammbuch [Germany, early 17th century]
An accomplished and attractive drawing based on the illustration characterizing the essential requirement of a sharp eye and a quick sure hand on p.xviiii in part 1 of Camillo Agrippa’s treatise on fencing, Trattato di scientia d’arme con un dialogo di filosofia (1553). It varies only in the addition of the texts, the foliage ground and the fencer’s loincloth.
94 x 150mm, with the inscriptions 'Virtute Oculi' above the eye and 'Et Manus' above the hand coming from the heavens, mounted.
FENCER WITH SWORD AND DAGGER, drawing in ink and gouache on a page from a Stammbuch [Germany, early 17th century]
An accomplished and attractive drawing based on the illustration characterizing the essential requirement of a sharp eye and a quick sure hand on p.xviiii in part 1 of Camillo Agrippa’s treatise on fencing, Trattato di scientia d’arme con un dialogo di filosofia (1553). It varies only in the addition of the texts, the foliage ground and the fencer’s loincloth.
94 x 150mm, with the inscriptions 'Virtute Oculi' above the eye and 'Et Manus' above the hand coming from the heavens, mounted.
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