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Jacob Binck

Dagger Sheath with a Landsknecht

1568/70
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
16.3 × 3.6 cm (6.4 × 1.4 in)

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FROM THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO’S CATALOG

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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