IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 18598 accession number: HEN.M.119-1933 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 February 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Backplate, for use by an harquebusier, with punched engraved and gilt decoration. Formed in one-piece with a narrow flange at the waist. It has straight sides and is only weakly shaped to the shoulder-blades. Its arm-openings, its high neck-opening and its waist flange have plain inward turns bordered by round-headed lining-rivets with circular internal washers. A pair of large flat-headed rivets at each shoulder retain fragments of the missing shoulder-straps. The inner rivet at the left shoulder is a later replacement. The right shoulder is pierced with a wiring-hole. A rivet-hole pierced at each side of the waist served to attach a missing waist belt. The backplate is decorated with recessed bands and borders of punched, engraved and gilt scrolling foliage, involving, in the vertical bands, trophies of arms. title: backplate (body armour) NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr James Stewart Henderson of 'Abbotsford', Downs Road, St Helen's Park, Hastings, Sussex. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J.S. Henderson creditline: J.S. Henderson Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/18598 SUBJECTS ------------------- trophies foliage trophies foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- formed in one-piece with a narrow flange at the waist; hammered, shaped, riveted, decorated with recessed borders and bands of punched, engraved and gilt scrolling foliage hammered TECHNIQUES ---------- patinating TECHNIQUES ---------- formed CATEGORIES ------ category: armour DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1680 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1680 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 16.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 46 dimension: Weight units: kg value: 1.81 dimension: Width units: cm value: 35.5