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Object Type
Museum number: Sheepshanks.6514
Description: Mutilated corpses of the de Witt Brothers suspended upside-down on the gallows; nocturnal setting; intestines and sleeping cat lying on platform; aghast onlooker with torch bottom right below the scaffold; forest behind; after Jan de Baen Engraving and etching
Producer name: Print made by: Cornelis Huyberts; After: Jan de Baen
School/style
Production date: 1672-1712
Materials
Technique: engraving; etching
Dimensions: Height: 314 millimetres; Width: 255 millimetres (trimmed)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: After a painting by Jan de Baen in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. no. SK-A-15.
Bibliographic references: Wurzbach 1906-11 / Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon; Muller 1863-1882 / De Nederlandsche Geschiedenis in Platen. Beredeneerde Beschrijving van Nederlandsche Historieplaten (2418)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Representation of: Cornelis Jacobsz de Witt; Representation of: Jan de Witt
Associated places: Associated with: Hague, The
Associated events: Associated Event: Assassination of Jan and Cornelis de Witt 1672 (20 August)
Acquisition name
Previous owner
Acquisition date: 1836
Acquisition notes: For the history of the acquisition of the Sheepshanks collection, please see Sheepshanks.1
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Sheepshanks.6514
Additional IDs: Other BM number: S.6514

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