Amsterdam, Fokke, Simon, Shooting for Father's Corpse, verso - stamped, A naked man hangs from a tree, tied to his arms with an arrow in his stomach. In front of him stands a man who is stringing his bow to shoot a second arrow. In the background are onlooking figures in front of a castle, one of them wiping away his tears with his cape. The print shows an epidosis from a story, taken from the 'Gesta Romanorum' (Chapter 15), a Latin collection of stories and anecdotes from the 14th century. Two sons of a deceased king fight over the succession. A judge decides the case by tying the deceased monarch to a tree. The son who shoots closest to his father's heart is won and will be the heir to the throne., print, prent, prints, height 128 mm, width 77 mm, Noord-Nederlands, 1712-09-01 - 1784-04-10, print maker, printmaker, 1722 - 1784, paper, papier, etching, etsen