Ornamental Design for Knife Handle
Theodor de Bry
c. 1588
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image/sheet, trimmed within platemark: 9 × 2.2 cm (3 9/16 × 7/8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
224014
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...