Two Firearms
Artist: Nicholas Paris of Warwick (died 1716)
Location: Warwickshire Museum
Date: 1690 - 1700
Dimensions: 1) 76.2cm; 2) 56.2cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £2,000 (Total: £24,400; tax remission)
Vendor: Trustees of the Stoneleigh Estate
Review number: 2946 (1981)
Provenance:
Made for Thomas Leigh, second Baron of Stoneleigh; by descent; offered for sale by the Trustees of the Stoneleigh Settlement at Christie's, 1981.
Description:
Two firearms: 1) a breech-loading flintlock sporting gun, circa 1700 2) a six-barrelled flintlock gun, circa 1690. The two are part of a group of firearms made for Thomas Leigh, second Baron of Stoneleigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey near Warwick.
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