Design for a Knife Handle with the Marriage at Cana

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Design for a knife handle with the Marriage at Cana in a rectangle at center showing Jesus turning water into wine, on a blackwork background with grotesques. Above, a design for a finial with a mermaid and merman above a putto head. Flanking the central design, two blades engraved with Biblical texts below alternate finial designs. From a series of twelve plates.

Artist

Johann Theodor de Bry

Date

1580–1600

Medium

Engraving and blackwork

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1920