Caption:
Bavarian suit of jousting armour 1600. With mentoniere helmet with perforated door for ventilation, shoulder shield for tilting, pauldron, elbow plates, wide cuisses to accommodate the stuffed breeches of the period. In the possession of Llewelyn Meyrick. Helmet with beaver and trapdoor at bottom. Handcoloured lithograph by Maddocks after an illustration by S.R. Meyrick from Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick's A Critical Inquiry into Antient Armour, John Dowding, London, 1842.