Scene with a Warning Against Venereal Disease in a Circle at Center. Artist: Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Liège 1528-1598 Frankfurt); After Johann Sadeler I (Netherlandish, Brussels 1550-1600/1601 Venice); after Christoph Schwarz (German, Munich ca. 1548-1592 Munich). Dimensions: Sheet: 5 5/16 × 5 3/8 in. (13.5 × 13.6 cm). Date: 1580-1600.
An allegorical scene with a warning against venereal disease set in a landscape in a circle at center. At right, a figure plays the lute in front of a fountain with Venus and Cupid. At center, a man gestures towards the fountain, while facing left towards a figure with a spear standing over a man crouching to drink from a stream into which a dog is urinating. Around the central circle, strapwork ornaments on a crosshatch background. The scene is a reverse copy of a print by Johannes Sadeler (Hollstein XXI.163.492) after a print by Christoph Schwarz.