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| Jan de Bisschop Antique reliefs of animal heads ca. 1643-71 drawing British Museum |
Dutch lawyer and artist Jan de Bisschop (1628-1671) made hundreds of drawings, etchings, and engravings of ancient Roman statuary without ever setting foot in Italy. The antiquities he represented were known to him exclusively from drawings and prints made by others. The distinctive and extremely effective graphic style of Jan de Bisschop must necessarily have been shaped by the need to convey an authority of observation that he had no practical grounds for claiming.
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| Jan de Bisschop Statue of Mourning Woman ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Statue of Mourning Woman ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Statue of Caius Marius in Toga ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Statue of Caninus in Toga ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Borghese Spinner ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Colossal Captive Barbarian at Palazzo Farnese ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Draped Torso at the Vatican ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Draped Torso at the-Vatican ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Bust of Zeno ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Bust of Democritus ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Capitoline Urania ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Capitoline Urania ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |
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| Jan de Bisschop Medici Aphrodite ca. 1643-71 etching British Museum |