Design for a Knife Handle with the Personification of Charity

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Design for a knife handle with Charity personified as a full-length female figure holding a child in her left arm and another at her right side, 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

Gift of Lucien Goldschmidt, 1977