A well known antique to the present taste!! [graphic]Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836, printmaker28th Sepr. 1835.engDepiction of a statue of three men grappling with a snake, the arm of the central figure inscribed "Bloody Brutal" and the pedestal inscribed "LAOCOON." The snake's body extends off the pedestal to the left, with the front of it forming a male human figure wearing a coat and a hat and having a medal around his neck. This figure holds a bucket labeled "ALBA" in his right hand and a dripping paint brush in his left; above him hangs a sign inscribed "How white now it would appear if I have not bitten it so black." On the side of the lower base of the statue is a scene with donkeys bowing down to a winged snake figure poised in front of an offering bowlTitle from text below image.Attributed to Robert Seymour in the British Museum online catalogue.Series title and numbering from text "Monthly Sheet of Caricatures, or, The Looking Glass, Vol. 6th, No. 70" on first page of magazine. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.12361.One page of a monthly magazine that consisted of four pages.Text below title: NB. It will be perceived that instead of the two serpents one large one of ["Bore" scored through] Boa species has been substituted ...