Emblemata Secularia
Medium
Engraving, woodcut
Dimensions
7 1/2 x 5 13/16 x 7/8 in. (19.1 x 14.7 x 2.2 cm)
Classification
Books
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1925
Accession Number
25.64.1
Tags
Bow and ArrowMenCupidTrees
About the Artist
Theodor de Bry|Hieronymus Galler · 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...