Klare onderrichtinge der voortreffelijcke worstel-konst : verhandelende hoemen in alle voorvallen van twist in handtgemeenschap, sich kan hoeden : en alle aengrepen, borst-stooten, vuyst-slagen &c. versetten ...
A 1674 Amsterdam wrestling and self-defence manual by Nicolaes Petter, with plates by Romeyn de Hooghe and published by Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, written in Dutch for those learning hand-to-hand combat. The four plates show pairs of fully dressed men in lace-collared coats and breeches locked in grips and throws, drawn as numbered, lettered sequences against a bare landscape, a clear template for staging action poses or choreographed movement.









































































