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Dagger Sheath with a Landsknecht
Jacob Binck1568/70
- Attribution
- Jacob Binck German, c.1500-1569
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image/plate/sheet: 16.3 × 3.6 cm (6 7/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Morris Woolf
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Prints intended to inspire gold-, silver-, and metalsmiths were sometimes produced in the shape of the objects they were meant to decorate. These designs offer foliate details and appropriate figural vignettes for knives and dagger sheaths like the ones seen in the Aldegrever prints above this case. The Landsknecht on this particular sheath does not wear a dagger, only his Katzbalger sword.
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