**AN ENGLISH ELECTROTYPE COPY, CIRCA 1880, OF A NORTH ITALIAN STEEL TARGET WITH EMBOSSED, PUNCHED AND GILT DECORATION, MILANESE, CIRCA 1560 of convex circular form with a turned edge accompanied by star-headed lining-rivets, fitted to the inside of them with various similar and plain rivets for the attachment of a pad for the arm and enarmes, and embossed overall in high relief, within a border of trophies of arms and oval cartouches enclosing nude classical subjects, with representations of Judith and Holofernes, David and Goliath, and the victory of Saul, all enhanced with fine punched detail and extensively gilt against a silvered ground, and fitted at the rear with the oval seal of the Elkington company bearing at its centre the royal cipher VR 57.5 cm; 22 3/4 in diameter Provenance Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 15 November 1956, part of lot 166 JWHA Inv. No. 3389 Exhibited Oneida County Jr. Museum, Utica, New York, 11 September 1967 - 8 January 1968 Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, 26-28 September 1968; 26-29 September 1975; 25-26 September 1981 Poughkeepsie Junior League, New York, 2 March - 3 May 1969 Children's Museum, Hartford Connecticut, March - April 1976 Beaumont Art Museum, Texas, 5 December 1977 - 23 January 1978 Schnectady, New York, 4 June - 13 September 1979 The electrotype was made by Elkington and Co Ltd of Birmingham from an original shield that was at that time in the Imperial collections of the Tsarkoe Selo near St Peterburg and is now in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Acc. No. 3. O.6161 (Gille & Rockstuhl 1835-53, pt, 21, pl. CXXII; and Godoy 2003, No. 22, pp. 134-5 & 428-30).