not necesarily

the book details armored knights up to almost its end

But I do see one with a pistol of some sort

so they have been used into the 1800s

So its gotta be late enough for cavalry flintlocks to be a thing

yep

pre ww1, past the 30year war

Yeah, most likely 1600s

Also check out that niggas HAT

You don't get hats that flamboyant past 1700

no no no

way later

id say mid 1700s

Why's that?

1750-1800 was my guess

well the german cavalry was very flamboyant even into the german danish wars

so thats not a real indicator

Well I mean

Pimp hats are flamboyant

however the hat looks very late 1700s in design

lol

I guess I'm looking at it from too much of an English point of view

We had those hats in the civil war

But not really after

it looks like a bunch of kürassiere actualy, or at least an earlier form of them

the cavalryman to the centerleft

Fuck I actually understand that word

in particular

That seems to be a german derivation of the French word Cuirassier, which we English use because we're lazy

The chestplate, Cuirass

yes thats where it comes from

gimme a sec

: D I'm smart

i have an image of those somewhere

But we've still not actually acomplished much <:sadtard:556699705153945620>

Imma go to bed

Let me know if there's any updates

okay so the guy on the center left is defenitly a prussian cuirassier

infact that exact armor they still used in 1870

Hmm, so it might be contemporary to the painter then?

wait, I said I was going to bed