1580-1600
Netherlands
Object qualities
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Objectbook / magazine / album: Print ornament & architecture
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Author of the objectJohann Theodor de Bry
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Type of arts & crafts
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MediumEngraving and blackwork
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SizeSheet: 3 3/4 Г— 15/16 in. (9.6 Г— 2.4 cm)
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Geography details
Netherlands -
Country today
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Date1580-1600
Source of information
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Type of sourceDatabase “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
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Fund that the source refers toMetropolitan Museum of Art
Description
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Panel with knife handle design, with a man with a rose before the seated figure of Death, shown as a skeleton, after a design by Jan Saenredam after Hendrik Goltzius (Bartsch III.258.123) This scene is framed by an arch at the top of the handle and is on a blackwork background with grotesques. From a series of twelve plates.