Johann Theodor de Bry

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Johann Theodor de Bry (1561 – 31 January 1623) was an engraver and publisher.

Biography

De Bry was born in

Frederik van Hulsen.[1] He died at Frankfort in 1623. His prints are signed with the initials J. T. B. or a monogram
.

He also made the following prints:

  • Portrait of Gerard Mercator, geographer.
  • Portrait of Daniel Specklin.
  • Four plates of the Elements; J. T. de Bry, inv. et fec.
  • The Marriage of Rebekah; after Baldassare Peruzzi.
  • A March of Soldiers; a frieze; after Titian.
  • Another March of Soldiers, conducting Prisoners, with Death riding on a Horse; a frieze, called the Triumph of Death; after the same.
  • The Little Village Fair; after
    H. S. Beham
    .
  • The Fountain of Youth; after the same.
  • The Triumph of Bacchus; after Giulio Romano.
  • The Venetian Ball; after Theodore Bernard; a circular plate.
  • The Golden Age; from the print engraved by N. De Bruyn; after A. Bloemaert.

After his father's death in 1598, Johann Theodore took over the family's printing house. Sometimes before 1613, he moved the enterprise from Frankfurt to

Rosicrucians. After the capture of Oppenheim in 1620, De Bry moved the printing house back to Frankfurt.[2]

References

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  2. ^ Yates, Frances. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, Routledge: London, 1972.

Attribution:

  • Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "De Bry, Johannes Theodorus". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.

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