Design for a Knife Handle with a Scene from the Book of Tobit

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Design for a knife handle with a scenes from the Book of Tobit in an oval at center, showing two kneeling figures before a canopied bed in an interior on a blackwork background with grotesques, including two winged mermaids at bottom. Flanking the central design, biblical texts on blades with alternate finials above. From a series of twelve plates.

Artist

Johann Theodor de Bry

Date

1580–1600

Medium

Engraving and blackwork

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Lucien Goldschmidt, 1977