Design for a Knife Handle with a Scene of Christ Joining a Man and Woman

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Design for a knife handle with Christ Joining a Man and Woman in a rectangle at center, on a blackwork background with grotesques, including a crouching satyr playing a flute at bottom. Flanking the central design, two blades engraved with passages of Matthew 19 in French.

Artist

Johann Theodor de Bry

Date

1580–1600

Medium

Engraving and blackwork

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951