Design for a Knife Handle with a Memento Mori
Johann Theodor de Bry Netherlandish
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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.
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