Detail with a Horned Mask Wearing a Whimple, from a Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle

Theodor de Bry

1592–93 · Engraving and blackwork · Drawings and Prints

Section trimmed from a larger plate with a design for a sword or dagger handle (the upper portion of Jessen I.114). In a rectangle on top of a plinth, a grotesque blackwork design with a horned female face wearing a whimple that is draped from tendrils on either side.

Artist

Theodor de Bry

Date

1592–93

Medium

Engraving and blackwork

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1962