Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Personification of Faith

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Design for a knife handle with Faith personified as a full-length female figure holding a crucifix in her left hand and a book in her right, in an oval, above a candelabrum with squirrels and snails in blackwork.

Artist

Johann Theodor de Bry

Date

1580–1600

Medium

Engraving and blackwork

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1968