Laocoon en zijn zonen, Jan de Bisschop, after anonymous, after Pieter P. Donker, c. 1663 - in or after 1668

Title(s)

Laocoon en zijn zonen
Signorum Veterum Icones I (series title)

Object type

• print

Serial number

16/50

Object number

RP-P-1906-2161

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein Dutch 6
• Gelder&Jost 16-3(3)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Artist

• print maker: Jan de Bisschop (mentioned on object)
• after sculpture by: anonymous
• after drawing by: Pieter P. Donker (mentioned on object)

Place

Northern Netherlands

Dating

c. 1663 - in or after 1668

Material

• paper

Technique

etching

Measurements

height 232 mm × width 172 mm

What

• Laocoon and his twin sons are strangled by two serpents during the preparations for a sacrifice

Acquisition

purchase 1906

Copyright

Public domain

• Berckheyde - Bodding, p. 44, cat.nr. 6
• Jan de Bisschop and his icones and paradigmata : classical antiquities and Italian drawings for artisstic instrumentation in seveneenth century Holland, p. 102, cat.nr. 16