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Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne|Adrien Tournachon

Figure 70: Head of the Laocoön of Rome

1854–56, printed 1862
Albumen silver print from glass negative
28.2 × 20.3 cm (11.1 × 8 in)

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