Mes Margaretha de Raet, Anno 1601. Den 7 octobris.
Theodor de Bry
1601
Medium
silver (metal)
Dimensions
23.5
About this artwork
Mes met zilveren heft en opengewerkte top. Aan beide zijden gegraveerd. In de top: I H S en een brandend hart. Langs de zijkanten: Margaretha de Raet, Anno 1601. Den 7 Octobris.
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...