Design for a Knife Handle with a Couple Gathered Around a Fire at Bottom

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 crane; below, a rectangle containing a scene with figures facing towards a fire at left and holding a bull. At bottom, a man and a woman gathered around a fire at left.

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