Emblem: An anvil with feathers and hammers

BRY, Theodor de (Liège, 1528 - Frankfurt, 1598) and DE BRY, Johann Theodor (Strasbourg, 1561 - Frankfurt, 1623).

Decorated surround with grotesques and two putti below with two empty cartouches; within, on a separate plate, emblem; an anvil with feathers and hammers.

Engraving, 1592

135x118 mm.

Lettered on the swirling scroll: "FORTIS IN ADVERSIS CASUQue IMMOTUS AD OMNES ". Numbered: "16".

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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).