Description: Jan de Bisschop, Female Statue, restored as a Nike, 1668/70 Plate 38 from Signorum Veterum Icones (1668) The sheet measures 13 by 8 3/8 inches, the image is 9 by 5 inches. The plate mark is slightly larger than the image. Description of this print by the British Museum: “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 directed to left” Description by the BM curator: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'.Hollstein 6; Van Gelder I.119.38-39
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Artist: Jan de Bisschop
Size: Medium
Material: Paper
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Region of Origin: Holland
Subject: Goddess Nike
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1668
Item Height: 13
Style: Baroque
Production Technique: Etching
Culture: Dutch
Time Period Produced: Pre-1700
