Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Death of Lucretia
Theodor de Bry
1580–1600
Medium
Engraving and blackwork
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 15/16 × 7/8 in. (7.4 × 2.3 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1968
Accession Number
68.779.3
Tags
FacesFemale NudesOwls
About the Artist
Theodor de Bry · 1528–1598
Theodor de Bry was born in 1528 in Liège, in what is now Belgium, into a family of jewelers and engravers. Trained as a goldsmith and copper-plate engraver — skills he refined under his grandfather, Thiry de Bry the Elder — he worked across several European cities before religious persecution forced him into exile. As a Protestant living under Spanish rule in the Southern Netherlands, de Bry was s...