Méléagre. Vatican

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Méléagre. Vatican

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James Anderson

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 of Meleager based on an original work attributed to Skopas. The statue depicts the Greek mythological hero with his hunting dog and the head of the Calydonian boar. He wears a short cloak that is draped around his shoulders, with its end wrapped around his arm. The pedestal on which the statue is placed is decorated with a papal emblem.

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