print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1901,1022.2531.7
- Title
- Series: Signorum Veterum Icones
- Description
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The fleeing son of Niobe facing left and looking over his left shoulder; a piece of drapery is wrapped around his shoulders
Etching
- Production date
- 1669-1671 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 226 millimetres
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Width: 151 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This etching and those on plate seven (1901,1022.2531.8) and thirty-three (1901,1022.2531.34) are copies in reverse after a part of the Medici group of 'The Deaths of the Children of Niobe', which is a copy of the late Hellenistic, Roman Republican or early Imperial period after a lost Hellenistic original. More than one version is known of several of the statues, though not of the one shown in this plate. The etchings were made after drawings by Doudijns, but neither these nor any intermediary drawings can be traced. In his list of contents and locations, De Bisschop rightly says that the sculptures which he reproduces here, form part of the Medici group. He also mentions Pliny's uncertainty, as to whether Skopas or Praxiteles was the artist, but he wisely adds that it is believed that it was the Medici group which is the work mentioned by Pliny. He furthermore refers to an epigram in titulus 9 of the fourth book of the 'Greek Anthology' where he found the testimony that Praxiteles had made a marble work of this subject. De Bisschop clearly had the 'Anthologia Planudea' at his disposal and refers to epigram 1 in the book and the titulu he mentions.
For more information about this edition and other present volumes in the British Museum see comment 1850,0810.652.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Acquisition notes
- For comment see: 1901,1022.2531.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1022.2531.7
