Design for Knife Handles with Ovals Containing Fortitude and the Death of Lucretia

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Panel with two knife handles, both with ovals at center, with a female figure beside a column at left and death of Lucretia at right, on blackwork backgrounds with ornamental design. From a series of twelve plates.

Artist

Johann Theodor de Bry

Date

1580–1600

Medium

Engraving and blackwork

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1921