Design for a Knife Handle with a Memento Mori

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Panel with knife handle design, with a man with a rose before the seated figure of Death, shown as a skeleton, after a design by Jan Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius (Bartsch III.258.123) This scene is framed by an arch at the top of the handle and is on a blackwork background with grotesques. From a series of twelve plates.

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, 1953