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  • Laocoön and his sons, attacked by sea snakes. Photograph, ca. 1870, of a sculpture by Agesander of Rhodes.
  • Laocoön. Etching by F. Perrier, 1638.
  • The Laocoön sculpture seen from behind. Pen and ink drawing after G. Audran.
  • The Laocoön sculpture seen from the front. Pen and ink drawing after G. Audran.
  • The Laocoön sculpture seen from the left. Pen and ink drawing after G. Audran.
  • Laocoön and his sons, attacked by sea snakes. Photograph, ca. 1870, of a sculpture by Baccio Bandinelli, ca. 1530, after a sculpture by Agesandro of Rhodes, ca. 50 (?).
  • The Laocoön sculpture seen from the left side. Pen and ink drawing after G. Audran.
  • The Laocoön sculpture. Pen and ink drawing after G. Audran.
  • The family of Laocoön entwined in coils of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • The family of Laocoön entwined in coils of DNA. Scraperboard drawing by Bill Sanderson, 1990.
  • Analysis of beauty. Plate I.
  • Laocoön and his sons. Engraving by Defehrt after G. Audran.
  • The Apollo Belvedere seen from the front and in three quarter view; a boy holding a water vessel; one of the sons of Laocoön battling with a serpent. Engraving by A.J. Defehrt after G. Audran.
  • Laocoön. Etching by Sisto Badalocchio, 1606.
  • The écorché figure of Laocoön, wrestling with a snake. Pencil drawing by C.H.M. Kerr, 1882.
  • The seated skeleton of Laocoön, wrestling with a snake. Pencil drawing by C.H.M. Kerr, 1882.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • The torso of Laocoon. Crayon manner print by A.F. Girard, 1820, after Eugène Bourgeois after Agesander.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • A savant in his cabinet, surrounded by chemical and other apparatus, examining a flask. Oil painting by Mattheus van Helmont, 167-.
  • Alcoholism as a monstrous boa constrictor which forces a man to drink from a bottle held in its jaws, and crushes him and his wife and children. Colour lithograph by M. Biro, 19--.
  • Laocoön and his sons, attacked by sea snakes. Etching by R. Dalton, 174-.
  • Proportions of the human body: four figures of the Farnese Hercules and the Laocoön group, with proportions marked. Line engraving by W. Grainger, 1788/1795, after G. Audran (?).
  • A long parasitical worm (tapeworm) is extracted from an emaciated man. Coloured lithograph by Langlumé, 1823.
  • The antique statue of Laocoön: Lord Melbourne as Laocoön, Lord John Russell and Thomas Spring-Rice as the two sons, entwined by two serpents with the faces of Lords Brougham and Lyndhurst. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.