Copy of a Design for a Knife Handle with the Personification of Faith
Design for a knife handle with Faith personified as a full-length female figure holding a crucifix in her left hand and a book in her right, in an oval, above a candelabrum with squirrels and snails in blackwork.
Credit: Rogers Fund, 1968
1580-1600
Engraving and blackwork
8.7 x 2.2cm
68.779.7
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019
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