Design for a Dish with Portraits of the Roman Emperors Nero, Galba, and Caligula

Theodor de Bry

ca. 1588 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

Design for a dish with medallions containing the portraits of three Roman Emperors – Nero (top), Galba (left), and Caligula(right) – around a central medallion with the title. To the left and right of the central medallion, scenes with grotesques, including two armored figures jousting towards each other at center. Below, a female figure supported by two mermen and flanked by birds. From a series of four plates.

Artist

Theodor de Bry

Date

ca. 1588

Medium

Engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1923