LÆTA BEAT POPULOS PAX, QUAM VICTORIA FECIT

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

LÆTA BEAT POPULOS PAX, QUAM VICTORIA FECIT (Peace is the fruit of victory). Decorated surround with butterflies, squirrels and grotesques with two blank cartouches.

Engraving, 1592

140x115 mm.

Lettered in lower margin: "LÆTA BEAT POPULOS PAX, QUAM VICTORIA FECIT". Numbered: "5".

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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).