Hi all,
In addition to my studies on earliest trapezoid arquebusier's/musketeer's powder flasks,
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...rapezoid+flask
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...rapezoid+flask
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...rapezoid+flask
I wish to add this important documentation here.
As I have pointed out, the obviously earliest source of period artwork concerning the use of trapezoid flasks are the representations of arquebusiers in the painting
The Battle of Pavia (1525) by Ruprecht Heller, dated 1525, preserved in the National Museum Stockholm, inv.no. 272:
http://www.vikingsword.com/vb/showth...rapezoid+flask
The next-in-line document seems to be the painting by Melchior Feselen,
The Battle of Alesia, dated 1533 (Bavarian National Museum Munich):
along with the earliest forms of powder horns, it pictures an arquebusier with a short matchlock arquebus and a trapezoid flask at the hip.
Attached find many details from that wonderful painting that includes all sorts of weapons, edged, hafted, fireams, armor and cannon alike, thus providing perfectly detailed studies for anybody interested in early-16th c. European arms and armor!
I have a 7 MB high resolution scan of that painting; anyone wishing to receive it please send me a message together with your email but make sure that your system is able to receive a 7 MB attachment!
Best,
Michael