Printing models
The five remarkably small and details prints were meant as models to decorate objects such as clocks, locks, boxes, vessels, cabinets and swords. One of De Bry’s two circular designs represents a duke as Commander of Folly encircled by hybrid creatures in ungainly poses. Similarly, the strange beings surrounding Charles V’s profile seem to underscore his enlarged lower jaw, a deformity the worsened in later Habsburg generations.
Printing models
The five remarkably small and details prints were meant as models to decorate objects such as clocks, locks, boxes, vessels, cabinets and swords. One of De Bry’s two circular designs represents a duke as Commander of Folly encircled by hybrid creatures in ungainly poses. Similarly, the strange beings surrounding Charles V’s profile seem to underscore his enlarged lower jaw, a deformity the worsened in later Habsburg generations.