bryot

Updated: February 16, 2026

It probably was the work of Nicholas Bryot, a great graver of the mint in the time of Charles I." Pennant's Wales. In the Royal Museum at Copenhagen is a common cherry-stone, on the surface of which are cut two hundred and twenty heads!

Shearjashub Spooner - Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)