A gunner besides an empty banderole and heraldic shield

BRY, Theodor de (Liège, 1528 - Frankfurt, 1598).

A gunner besides an empty banderole and heraldic shield.

Engraving, 1592

65x81 mm.

Paper with watermark.

Provenance: "VC" inside an oval collectors mark (no en Lugt) and a pen and brown ink inscription on the verso.

Bibliography:

de Jong, M. and de Groot, I., Ornamentprenten in het Rijksprentenkabinet I, 15de & 16de eeuw, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1988, no.42. Hollstein, F. W. H., et al.

The New Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700 (Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1951): vol. 4, nº 30-123.

Illustration to "Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna" (Frankfurt, 1592).