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." ...