Legend to the illustrations in the print:
- ANCIENT MILITARY ENGINES: Fig. 1. Steel catapult, 2. A simple kind of springel, 3,4.
Sling ballista, 5. Small ballista for fire balls, 6. Wall piece or
culverin, 7. A swivel gun or field hackbut, 8. Arquebus of lighter
construction, 9. Arquebus, 10, Musket, 11. Match lock, old
construction, 12. Match lock, improved construction, 13. Wheel lock,
14. Wheel lock, improved, 15. Mortar, made of wooden staves, like
casks, 16. A stone throwing mortar, 17. Bombard on a fixed bed, 18,19.
The first cannons, known as Bombards, 20. Forty-five battering gun, 21.
Movable carriage, 22. Mortar and chambered gun, 23. A petard used for
bursting gates etc., 24. [center] Movable towers used to conquer
Jerusalem by the Crusaders on the 15th July 1099 after a siege of one
month.
Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1844
- Publisher: Georg Heck
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair)
- Dimensions: 9.5 x 11.5 inches (24 x 29 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image(s).
- Paper weight: 3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Note: Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed.
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