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