Design for a Knife Handle with Well-Dressed Couples

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Panel with a knife handle design. At top, sections of ornament with a decorative bird and a monkey; below, a rectangle containing a scene with a well-dressed man in a hat and a woman walking left. At bottom, another scene of a well-dressed couple, in which the man wears a top hat.

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