Hercule. Vatican

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Hercule. 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
Object ID
abba6515-f718-4b3e-9338-c6d1e77b59d0

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Photograph of a statue of Hercules or Heracles. The statue depicts him as a nude male figure with curly hair and beard, resting on his club to his right and holding the skin of the Nemean lion with his left hand.

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