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Bacchante. Vatican
Creator
James AndersonBritish Photographer · 1813–1877
All works by this person →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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- 1859
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- British
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- b279ccbe-22e7-4447-961b-fb46c50f1ee8
What the image shows
A classical statue of a draped figure with one arm raised.
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From the Getty Museum record
Photograph of a statue in the Vatican Museums' collection. It depicts a female figure crowned with flowers. A cloth or cloak is wrapped around her, with her hand holding its end to cover her pubic area. Her other hand is raised close to her face.
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