Design for a Knife Handle with 'Sine Cerere et Baccho Friget Venus'

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Panel with a knife handle design with the inscription SINE CERERE ET BACCHO FRIGET VENVS (Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Would Freeze) around a scene depicting a female and male figure walking left. Below, an oval with a female figure surrounded by children. 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