Music is God's gift to man

BRY, Johann Theodor de (Strasbourg, 1561 - Frankfurt, 1623), after Pieter de Jode y Adam van Noort.

Music is God's gift to man.

Engraving, 1596

100x100 mm.

Inscription: "MUSICA MORTALES RECREAT DIVOSQ BEATOS".

Numbered in lower rigth: "6".

Paper with watermark.

Bibliography:

Hollstein Dutch 240-287

Inscription translation: "MUSICA MORTALES RECREAT DIVOSQ BEATOS": music rejoices mortals and blessed gods.

Illustration to "Emblemata Saecularia" (Frankfurt, 1596).