Bust of Patroclus
- Made:
- 1841-1845
- maker:
- William Henry Fox Talbot
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Calotype positive of statue but entitled 'Bust of Patroclus', photographed by William Henry Fox Talbot, about 1842. Plate V from the 'Pencil of Nature', published in Part I, June 1844. A complete group sculpture discovered in Greece in the 1950s showed that this fragment is not in fact a portrait bust of Patroclus, but is instead of a wine-skin carrier for Odysseus.
Details
- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1937-1281/1
- Materials:
- paper (fibre product)
- Measurements:
-
overall: 225 mm x 186 mm
- type:
- photograph, calotype and salt print
- credit:
- Matilda Talbot
