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Crossbow (Windlass with Winder)

Materials/Media Steel bow/wooden stock Dimensions/Measurements Overall: 44 1/2 x 30 in. (113 x 76.2 cm) Other notes Acquired by Henry Walters (Keasbey)

Sporting Crossbow and Winder ("Cranequin") with Decoration of Hunting Scenes

The tiller has decorations of scenery of deer and boar driven into nets which were set up to corner prey easily. The decoration also shows delicate tendrils of a vine with little flowers. “Henry Griffith Keasbey, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sale, American Art Association, New York, December 5, 1924, no. 275; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.” Materials/Media steel, wood, bone inlay, horn, cord Dimensions/Measurements 30 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (78.1 x 59.7 cm)