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Hussey, Giles, 1710–1788
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1730
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Album of 36 Drawings Selected by Benjamin West, P.R.A.
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18th century
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black ink
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religious and mythological subject
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Classical
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Laocoon and his twin sons are strangled by two serpents during the preparations for a sacrifice
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Laocoön
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Giles Hussey, 1710–1788
Study of classical scultpure of Laocoon
between 1730 and 1768