_Franz von Sickingen._--Perusing a few of your back numbers, in a reply
of S.W.S. to R.G. (Vol. i., p. 336.), I read:
"I had long sought for a representation of Sickingen, and at
length found a medal represented in the _Sylloge Numismatum
Elegantiorum of Luckius_," &c.
I now hope that in S.W.S. I have found the man who is to solve an
obstinate doubt that has long possessed my mind: Is the figure of the
knight in Durer's well-known print of "The Knight, Death, and the
Devil," a portrait? If it be a portrait, is it a portrait of Franz von
Sickingen, as Kugler supposes? The print is said to bear the date 1513.
I have it, but have failed to discover any date at all.