Design for a Knife Handle with the Sermon on the Mount
Summary
Design for a knife handle with the Sermont on the Mount in a rectangle at center, on a blackwork background with grotesques. Above, a design for a finial with a two horses with fish tails above a putto mask. Flanking the central design, two blades engraved with Biblical texts below alternate finial designs. From a series of twelve plates.
Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach)
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Date
1623
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Copyright info
Public Domain Dedication (CC0)