Knight, Death and the Devil, by Albrecht Dürer, 1513

• 100% Silk
• Hand Rolled
• Printed in Macclesfield, England
• 42cm x 42cm

Dürer engraved this plate in 1513, and it is one of three prints, alongside Melencolia I and Saint Jerome in His Study, known as his Meisterstiche, or master engravings. A knight in full armour rides through a rocky gorge with two unwelcome companions: Death on a weary horse, crowned with snakes and holding up an hourglass, and a horned, pig-snouted Devil bringing up the rear. The knight looks straight ahead. His dog keeps pace beneath him, and a skull rests in the bottom corner in case anyone had missed the point. The print has long been read alongside Erasmus's Handbook of the Christian Soldier: the steadfast man rides on, whatever turns up to keep him company.

Every line was cut into copper by hand, and the detail survives the move to silk intact: the chain mail at the knight's wrist, the sprig of oak leaves on his horse's brow, the bristles on the Devil's chin. Printed in Macclesfield in ivory and charcoal with a hand-rolled edge, it is a serious pocket square with a sense of humour about mortality, best partnered with grey cloth and a straight face.

Wear this with our Light-Grey Hopsack Wool Blend Jacket and Claret & Steel Grey Stripe Silk Tie.

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