Laocoon and his sons
- Made:
- circa 1850 in United Kingdom
- photographer:
- William Henry Fox Talbot
A Calotype negative entitled 'Laocoon and his sons, taken by William Henry Fox Talbot in the mid-nineteenth century. 'Laocoon and his sons' is a marble sculpture now in the Vatican Museums, Rome. It shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents.
A print from a calotype negative entitled 'Laocoon and his sons, taken by William Henry Fox Talbot in the mid-nineteenth century.
'Laocoon and his sons' is a marble sculpture now in the Vatican Museums, Rome. It shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 2003-5001/2/23832
- Materials:
- paper
- type:
- calotype negative and photograph
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
