Angus McBride color plate : can you identify this ?

[Theodosius the Great]

Avete,

I've found a color plate of a Visigoth drawn by Angus McBride but I don't know which book it was originally published in.

Can someone identify which Osprey title this color plate comes from ?

It's not from any of the "Rome's Enemies" titles, I checked.

hmm...anyone know ?

~Theo

[Uwe Bahr]

Hi Theo,

it is from Osprey's Warrior series, exactly: 'Germanic Warrior AD 236 - 568', contains a lot of McBride's beautiful paints (Battle of Straßburg, Germanic shield wall at Campus Mauriacus, etc.):

[url:bc6zzhzf]http://www.ospreypublishing.com/title_detail.php/title=P5861~ser=WAR~per=40[/url]

Greets - Uwe

[Theodosius the Great]

Thanks, Uwe !

Laudes to you

I'll have to order that title now.

~Theo

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

I have a copy, but see I was beaten to the post!

[M. Demetrius]

but see I was beaten to the post

Better TO than BY, eh?

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

True, although some people mig...never mind :lol:

[Chuck Russell]

awesome book to have i've got the kit in the works

[Robert Vermaat]

awesome book to have i've got the kit in the works

The helmet is all wrong, with McBride oddly persisting in the 'circular earcaps' that in the past were wrongly drawn on an earlier Osprey reconstruction of the Intercisa helmet.

The place of the knife.. I'd call that extremly dangerous to the wearer's private parts! And also, to suspend a sharp knife just from one ring would mean the thing is constantly danglin' about...

The belt - I know the suspension ring on the upper size of the belt, attached to a suspension belt, certainly provides some balance. I also know that this is how the Dorchester-on-Thames belt was reconstructed, but I've never seen any artistic or other evidence that supports this solution.

[Theodosius the Great]

The helmet is all wrong, with McBride oddly persisting in the 'circular earcaps' that in the past were wrongly drawn on an earlier Osprey reconstruction of the Intercisa helmet.

I was puzzled by that helmet too and couldn't find anything from my sources to confirm its authenticity. Like you said, this book is 12 years old but I'm not so sure that McBride was to blame. The author, Simon MacDowall, has other multiple, faulty reconstuctions from his two other Osprey books on Late Roman equipment. McBride did not illustrate those so I suspect the author is ultimately responsible.

Another item that caught my eye was how short the tunic sleeves are on this Visigoth and on other Germanic figures drawn by McBride. What's the source for this ? I thought Roman and German tunics were virtually indistinguishable from each other - both having long, tight sleeves. But the book plates show loose, baggy sleeves which end at the mid-forearm :?




~Theo