Laocoön and his sons, attacked by sea snakes. Etching by R. Dalton, 174-.

  • Dalton, Richard, 1715?-1791.
Date:
[between 1740 and 1749?]
Reference:
663861i
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Description

The sculpture known as the "Laocoön", in the Belvedere courtyard of the Vatican museums from 1506 to 1815 and then from 1816 onwards: Haskell and Penny, loc. cit.

Publication/Creation

[London] : [R. Dalton?], [between 1740 and 1749?]

Physical description

1 print : etching, with engraving ; platemark 56.4 x 41.1 cm

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Lettering

Laocoon in aedibus vaticanis. R. Dalton fecit. Plin. Nat. Hist. Lib. 36. C. 5.Sicut in Laocoonte qui est in Titi imperatoris domo [...] fecere summi artifices Agesander, et Polidorus, et Athenodorus Rodii.To the Hon.ble Stuart Mackenzie Esq.r this plate is humbly inscrib'd by his most oblig'd & obedient serv.t R Dalton

References note

F. Haskell and N. Penny, Taste and the antique, the lure of classical sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven and London 1981, pp. 243-247, no. 52 (no mention of this print)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663861i

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  • album of etchings by R. Dalton after ancient sculptures in Italy

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