Jan de Bisschop "Signorum Veterum Icones" gravura veche 1672-1689

Signorum Veterum Icones

• Object type

  • print
  • drawing book 

• Museum number

  1850,0810.692

• Title (series)

  • Signorum Veterum Icones

• Description

  Female statue wearing a garment looking at left holding out a laurel wreath in her right hand and a palm-leaf in her left hand; front view
  Etching

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Jan de Bisschop 

• School/style

  • Dutch 

• Date

  • 1672-1689 (c.)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • etching 

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Numbered in pencil or graphite in top right corner: "39".

• Curator's comments

  This statue is regarded as a decorative Roman work of the second century A.D., based on a Hellenistic prototype of the third or second century B.C. The statue was depicted from two different angles, each on separate plate. For all two plates see: 1850,0810.691-692. The etchings, of which the second plate was more freely etched, show the statue completed with its modern additions the right way round. This means that De Bisschop must have worked from counterproofs. No draughtsman's name is mentioned, but to judge from the differences both in details and in the general rendering, the drawings must have been by different artists, probably even of different periods. Neither these drawings have been traced, nor have any intermediary drawings by De Bisschop. In his list of contents and locations De Bisschop incorrectly called the statue 'Flora in hortis Matthaeorum'.
  For comment on volume see 1850,0810.652.

• Bibliography

  • Hollstein 6 
  • Van Gelder 1985 I.119.38-39 

• Location

  Not on display (157*.a.14)

• Subjects

  • sculpture

• Associated names

  • Associated with: Constantijn Huygens, the younger (dedicatee) 

• Acquisition name

  • Purchased from: A E Evans & Sons 

• Acquisition date

  1850

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1850,0810.692