Design for Knife Handles, from Mansches de Coutiaus

Johann Theodor de Bry

1580–1600 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Two knife handle designs, with a standing female figure with a shield contained in an oval on the design at left. At right, a winged putti head under a canopy above a candelabrum with a basket of fruit at bottom. Both designs on a blackwork background.

Artist

Johann Theodor de Bry

Date

1580–1600

Medium

Engraving and blackwork

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1968