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 7.2cm x w 8.9cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: RE mount

Inscription: Patent Talbotype or Sun Pictures stamp on verso; label on verso: Depot des Arts et de la Literature Passage Colbert Rotonde No 10 Paris; in pencil, verso: 4/

Owner: Private

Supporting images

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.