Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle with the Suicide of Cleopatra

Theodor de Bry Netherlandish

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Handle design divided horizontally into two sections, each with a female figure in an oval at center. In the oval at top, Cleopatra holds a snake in her left hand, while the oval below shows a female figure leaning on a broken column and holding the top section of the column. On a grotesque blackwork background.

Design for a Sword or Dagger Handle with the Suicide of Cleopatra, Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Liège 1528–1598 Frankfurt), Engraving and blackwork

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