Design for a Knife Handle with a Scene of Christ Joining a Man and Woman

Johann Theodor de Bry Netherlandish

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Design for a knife handle with Christ Joining a Man and Woman in a rectangle at center, on a blackwork background with grotesques, including a crouching satyr playing a flute at bottom. Flanking the central design, two blades engraved with passages of Matthew 19 in French.

Design for a Knife Handle with a Scene of Christ Joining a Man and Woman, Johann Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Strasbourg 1561–1623 Bad Schwalbach), Engraving and blackwork

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