Catalogue Entry: Plaster cast of 19C Restoration
Name: Cast of the 19C Restoration of the Laocoon GroupCollection: Spurlock Museum, University of Illinois
Inventory Number: 1900.13.0001
Date Created: ca. 1873
Date Acquired: ca. 1873
Cast maker: Unknown. The cast was restored by Don Carlos and Lorado Taft in 1873. See Allen Stuart Weller. Lorado in Paris: The Letters of Lorado Taft, I880-1885. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Material: Plaster
Dimensions: Height 238.2 cm.
Photographers: Kacie Alaga and Mohamed Abdelaziz.
3D Modeler: Mohamed Abdelaziz.
3D Annotations: Kacie Alaga.
Project Sponsor: Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, Indiana University.Project Director: Bernard Frischer.
Acknowledgements: We thank the Spurlock Museum for permission to undertake this project, and we are grateful to Elizabeth Sutton, Director, and Travis Stansel, Assistant Registrar, for their assistance and hospitality.
[Catalogue entry by Bernard Frischer]
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