Ornament for Knife Handle
Theodor de Bry
1501 to 1550
Medium
engraving
Dimensions
plate: 10.4 x 2.3 cm (4 1/8 x 7/8 in.) sheet: 10.4 x 2.7 cm (4 1/8 x 1 1/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.3323
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...