Designs Sword Sheaths (left and middle) and for a Dagger Pommel (right)

ca. 1546–55

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Print with three designs for the decoration of weapons with grotesque motifs. This sheet contains designs for a dagger pommel and for the sheath of a sword. Cornelis Bos may have been inspired to create these designs through a two-year stay in Nuremberg between 1546 and 1548, where he may have encountered the prints of Augustin Hirschvogel.

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Title: Designs Sword Sheaths (left and middle) and for a Dagger Pommel (right)
Artist: Cornelis Bos (Netherlandish, Hertogenbosch ca. 1510?–before 1556 Groningen)
Published in: Antwerp
Date: ca. 1546–55
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: 4 15/16 x 7 in. (12.5 x 17.7 cm)
Classifications: Albums, Prints, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Object Number: 49.95.362
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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