The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 1880

Statuette of Lot and His Daughters

Object details

Image size: h 8.1cm x w 10.1cm

Paper size: h 10.0cm x w 11.1cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-2958/1

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 1880

Statuette of Lot and His Daughters

Keywords: sculpture

Statuette depicting a biblical scene (Genesis 19:30-38) of Lot and his daughters after they had fled to the mountains from Sodom. A spindlewood carving of the same motif is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is attributed to a follower of Leonard Kern.