Knight, Death, and the Devil
Object Details
- Print Maker
- Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- A knight in armor, and bearing arms, rides horseback, facing left, in profile. Death rides beside him, showing him an hourglass. A devil follows, his claws extended toward the knight. Rocky landscape in background. A dog and a lizard in foreground. At lower left, monogram of Dürer, and date of 1513 on tablet resting against a stone on which a skull is placed.
- Credit Line
- Bequest of George Campbell Cooper
- 1513
- Accession Number
- 1896-3-39
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Type
- Medium
- Engraving on laid paper
- Dimensions
- 24.5 x 18.8 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
- made in
- Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1896-3-39
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq44cd5a5d9-e7bb-4b4e-a417-3fea74381883
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