Franz von Sickingen

I regret that I cannot resolve the doubt of H.J.H. respecting Albert Durer's allegorical print of *The Knight, Death, and the Devil*, of which I have only what I presume is a copy or retouched plate, bearing the date 1564 on the tablet in the lower left-hand corner, where I suppose the mark of Albert Durer is placed in the original. I should, however, much doubt its being intended as a portrait of Sickingen, and I can trace no resemblance to the medal given by Luckius. I believe the conjecture originated with Bartsch, in his *Peintre Graveur*, vol. vii. p. 107. Schoeber, in his *Life of Durer*…