Designs for the Decoration of a Percussion Pistol

ca. 1847

Not on view

This sheet and two others in the collection (acc. nos. 2015.99 and 2015.100) are rare examples of finished design drawings for the decoration of firearms and edged weapons created in the workshop of Eusebio Zuloaga, gunmaker to the Spanish monarchs, keeper of the Royal Armory in Madrid, and the most famous Spanish metalworker of the mid-nineteenth century. This sheet records the decoration created for various parts of a highly elaborate cased pair of all-steel percussion pistols with accessories, which was made in the Zuloaga workshops in Madrid or Eibar. The set of pistols was stolen from the Higgins Armory Museum (Worcester, Mass.) in 1978 has never been recovered. These designs, therefore, provide invaluable evidence of the color and beauty of the missing originals.

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Title: Designs for the Decoration of a Percussion Pistol
Designer: Eusebio Zuloaga (Spanish, Madrid and Eibar 1808–1898)
Date: ca. 1847
Culture: Spanish
Medium: Pen, ink, colored wash, and silver on paper
Dimensions: 13 1/2 x 17 5/8 in. (34.5 x 44.8 cm)
Classification: Works on Paper-Drawings
Credit Line: Purchase, Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Bequest, 2015
Object Number: 2015.101
Curatorial Department: Arms and Armor

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