Design for a Dish with Portraits of the Roman Emperors Caesar, Claudius, and Otho

Theodor de Bry

ca. 1588 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

Design for a dish with medallions containing the portraits of three Roman Emperors – Caesar (top), Claudius (left), and Otho (right) – around a central medallion with the title. To the left and right of the central medallion, scenes with grotesques, including two merchants being pulled on carts towards the centaur. Below, two figures sit on a basket of eggs. 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