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Artist
- Name:
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Dates:
- 1814-1879
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- People
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- G. Junior (G. Jeune)
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- Robarts Library, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Dictionnaire raisonné du mobilier français de l'époque carlovingienne à la Renaissance, vol. 2
- Author(s):
- Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
- Publisher:
- Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1874
- Open Library:
- View record.
Description
Two boys play with puppets representing fighting knights with shields and swords. A rope goes through the toy knights’ bellies and their legs were probably weighed down with lead, allowing the children to mimic a sword fight.
This illustration was drawn after Herrad of landsberg’s manuscript Hortus deliciarum, which was destroyed in 1870.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, child, game, medieval, reference book, toy