Laocoon. Vatican

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Laocoon. Vatican

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British Photographer · 1813–1877

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James Anderson was born Isaac Atkinson in Blencarn, Cumberland, England and studied painting in Paris as William Nugent Dunbar. In 1838 he moved to Rome and began to produce sculpture as James Anderson, which remained his professional name. Eleven years later he took up photography, opening a studio in Rome in 1853. Anderson specialized in reproductions of works of art, publishing frequent catalog

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Date: 1859
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Photograph of a statue known as "Laocoön and His Sons," depicting three male figures being attacked by two serpents. Laocoön is shown here as the central figure with one arm raised up, grabbing hold of one of the serpents. The other two male figures each has an arm stretched upward as well. A number label is affixed onto the base of the statue.

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