Design for Two Knife Handles
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate: 10 1/16 x 4 3/4 in. (25.6 x 12 cm) sheet: 10 1/4 x 4 7/8 in. (26 x 12.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
Accession Number
25.24.56
Tags
About the Artist
Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Francesco Salviati (Francesco de' Rossi) · 1553–1615
Cherubino Alberti (1553–1615), also known by his birth name Zaccaria Mattia, was an Italian engraver and painter active in Rome during the late Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Born in Borgo San Sepolcro in Tuscany, he came from an artistically inclined family and received training that equipped him for work in both painting and the reproductive graphic arts. It was as a printmaker, however,...