Pride and Folly, from a Series of Tazza Designs
Theodor de Bry
ca. 1588
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 1/16 × 4 13/16 in. (12.9 × 12.2 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.5790(3)
Tags
Mythical CreaturesPeacocksHorsesDemonsAdamEve
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...