Double-Barreled Percussion Shotgun

Louis Perrin

Date

dated 1854

Type

Double-barreled percussion shotgun

Medium

Steel, wood (walnut), silver

Department

Arms and Armor

Culture

French, Paris

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

1991.5

Credit

Purchase, Rogers Fund, The Sulzberger Foundation Inc. Gift, Gifts of William H. Riggs, Bill and Joyce Anderson, Charles M. Schott Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, William B. Osgood Field, Christian A. Zabriskie, Dr. Albert T. Weston, Henry Victor Burgy, and Bequest of Alan Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, by exchange, and The Collection of Giovanni P. Morosini, presented by his daughter Giulia, John Stoneacre Ellis Collection, Gift of Mrs. Ellis and Augustus Van Horne Ellis, and Bashford Dean Memorial Collection, funds from various donors, by exchange, 1991