Pride and Folly, from a Series of Tazza Designs
Theodor de Bry
ca. 1588 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints
In the central medallion, a portrait of a jester in profile (facing right) merged with an upside down head of a satyr, framed by a circular ornamental frieze with scenes including the Whore of Babylon and the Temptation of Adam and Eve, as well as a peacock and a series of demons and grotesques. From a series of four designs for ornamented tazza, or drinking vessels.
- Artist
- Theodor de Bry
- Date
- ca. 1588
- Medium
- Engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951