Shoot to Father's corpse, Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784 print A naked man hangs with an arrow in his stomach tied to his arms tied in a tree. In front of him is a man who strings his bow to shoot a second arrow. In the background are watching figures for a castle, one of them wipes his tears away with his cape. The print shows an epidosis from a story from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (chapter 15), a Latin collection of stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king fight for the succession. A judge decides to tie the case by the deceased prince to a tree. The son who shoots clos
Shoot to Father's corpse, Simon Fokke, 1722 - 1784 print A naked man hangs with an arrow in his stomach tied to his arms tied in a tree. In front of him is a man who strings his bow to shoot a second arrow. In the background are watching figures for a castle, one of them wipes his tears away with his cape. The print shows an epidosis from a story from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (chapter 15), a Latin collection of stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king fight for the succession. A judge decides to tie the case by the deceased prince to a tree. The son who shoots closest to his father's heart has been won and will be the heir to the throne. Amsterdam paper etching shooting at father's corpse: two rival heirs are forced by a judge to shoot an arrow at a corpse; the false heir does not hesitate to do so, the true one, knowing that he will be shooting at his father, refuses
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