Dagger Sheath with a Landsknecht
Jacob Binck
1568/70
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/plate/sheet: 16.3 × 3.6 cm (6 7/16 × 1 7/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
41594
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
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.