Jan de Bisschop "Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum" antique engraving, 1671

Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum

• Object type

  • print
  • drawing book 

• Museum number

  1896,0528.1.15

• Title (series)

  • Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum

• Description

  Moses sitting looking at left, he is wearing a garment, at right a book under his arm; after Michelangelo. 1671
  Etching

• Producer name

  • Print made by: Jan de Bisschop 
  • Intermediary draughtsman: Willem Doudijns 
  • After: Michelangelo 

• School/style

  • Italian
  • Dutch 

• Date

  • 1671

• Production place

  • Published in: The Hague
  • (Europe,Netherlands,Holland,Zuid-Holland,Hague, The)

• Materials

  • paper

• Technique

  • etching 

• Inscriptions

  • • Inscription Content

      Lettered below impression: "M.A. Bonaroti è marm. Doedeins d." and with De Bisschop's monogram: ''JE f.'' (Nagler III.2254). Numbered in top right corner: "15".

• Curator's comments

  This etching is a copy in reverse after a sculpture by Michelangelo in the S. Pietro in Vincoli, 'Tomb of Julius II'.The only difference with reality is the pedestal which is trapezoidal. According to the inscription in the etching, De Bisschop used a drawing by Doedijns as a prototype, however, this one has not been traced yet.

  This etching is one from a series of 25 etchings 'Paradigmata Graphices variorum artificum'; first published in The Hague in 1671. For more information about this edition and other present volumes of 'Paradigmata Graphices Variorum Artificum' in the British Museum see comments of 1850,0810.652-810

• Bibliography

  • Hollstein 6 
  • Van Gelder 1985 I.239.15 

• Location

  Not on display (157*.a.15)

• Subjects

  • old testament

• Associated names

  • Representation of: Moses 
  • Associated with: Jan Six (dedicatee) 

• Acquisition name

  • Donated by: Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks 

• Acquisition date

  1896

• Department

  Prints & Drawings

• Registration number

  1896,0528.1.15