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Johann Theodor de Bry

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Engraved print of an ornate knife handle with a marriage scene, cherubs, scrollwork, and French text panels on each side.

Design for knife handle to commemorate a marriage

ca. 1580-1600

Engraving of an old man embracing a young woman on a bed as a cupid watches, with a city view through a window.

Jonge vrouw wijst oude vrijer af

1596

Engraving of blind men with walking sticks stumbling near a stream, with a church, cottages and trees in the background.

De blinde leidt de blinde

1596

Engraving of an old man under a tree, a woman holding a mirror and spectacles, with a house and fence behind them.

Een man wordt een spiegel voorgehouden (Beziet u zelve)

1596

Engraving of a horse trotting past a man carrying a huge hay bundle, with thatched cottages and bare trees behind.

Het hooi loopt het paard achterna

1596

Engraving of a man holding a sieve with a small figure while women struggle beside a brick building with a cross.

Vrouwen vechten om een mannenbroek

1596

Engraving of a crowd packed into a large wicker basket with German captions and a Latin verse below.

Blinde keuze voor een huwelijkspartner

1596

Engraving of young men in ruffs beating a leafy tree while figures peer from its branches, with a Latin caption below.

Jonkvrouwenboom

1596

Engraving of an allegorical scale with a man and woman balanced, a cupid with a bow and a chest of coins, and onlookers.

Huwelijksweegschaal

1596

Engraving of a feathered-hat man pouring from a bowl at a table of flasks, watched by seated figures and a companion.

Kwakzalver aan het werk

1596

Engraving of a man in a cape pointing at swirling smoke beside a woman in a hood, with a chest and cat in the foreground.

Waar rook is, hoeft nog geen vuur te zijn

1596

Engraving of a seated basket weaver, a standing woman holding a basket, and a boy in a feathered cap in an interior.

De gemolken mandenvlechter

1596

Engraving of a woman pulling a man's trousers down while he grips her arm, with a tree, house and conifer behind them.

Strijd om de broek

1596

Engraving of a seated woman in embroidered gown holding coins, with an older plumed man leaning beside her and a Latin captio

Jonge vrouw tussen een jonge en een oude man

1596

Engraving of a dovecote with jesters, flying winged fools, and two women in gowns standing on either side of the tower.

Duiventil vol vliegende narren

1596

Engraving of a woman and two men on a rope-strung frame, with devils and tangled figures below and a farmhouse in the distanc

Vrouw verleidt drie mannen tegelijk

1596

Engraving of a seated bearded man in a fur-trimmed robe playing a bow instrument on a jawbone, with a castle and bridge behin

The Rich Man Playing Violin on a Jaw Bone

Engraved pendant design plate with a central figure in a cartouche, scrollwork, ribbon bow, and pear-shaped drops on cream pa

Plate 2, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

1610

Symmetrical ornamental pendant design with cherubs, animals, scrollwork and a central vignette of two figures under a tree.

Pendant Design with the Temptation, Plate 1, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

1610

Engraved pendant design with a nude allegorical woman in a niche, flanked by stags and birds, labeled SPES.

Pendant Design with the Virtue Hope, Plate 3, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

1610

Engraving of two ornate knife handle designs with framed mythological scenes, scrollwork, and Latin inscriptions on aged pape

Designs for Two Knife Handles

1500

Engraved pendant design with a central niche showing a female figure and two children labeled Charitas, surrounded by scrollw

Plate 4, from a series of eight pendant designs with the cardinal virtues

1610