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Aqueducts - Virgo, part of the Specus of the old line in the Catacomb of Priscilla, shewing the Tunnel half filled up with a deposit of fine clay.

Photograph
1867-1870 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Parker, John Henry (publisher)
Place of origin
Rome (photographed)

Photograph of part of the specus of the Aqua Virgo, of the old line in the catacomb of Priscilla, Rome


Object details

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Topography
Archaeology
Object type
Photograph
TitleAqueducts - Virgo, part of the Specus of the old line in the Catacomb of Priscilla, shewing the Tunnel half filled up with a deposit of fine clay.
Materials and techniques
Photography
Brief description
Photograph of part of the specus of the Aqua Virgo, of the old line in the catacomb of Priscilla, Rome
Object history
This photograph is one of a collection of over 3,300 photographs documenting the principal monuments of Rome from the classical age to the 1600s. The photographs were taken between 1867 and 1870 under the direction of John Henry Parker, the founder of the British and American Archaeological Society of Rome. He employed several local photographers including De Bonis, Filippo Spina, Carlo Baldassare Simelli, Francesco Sidoli, Filippo Lais, Giovanni Battista Colamedici, as well as a Canadian one, Charles Smeaton. The Victoria and Albert Museum houses a selection of the most significant photographs from this collection.
Associations
British and American Archaeological Society of Rome
Rome
Bibliographic reference
On label pasted to mount
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
70744

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Record createdMarch 11, 2015
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1310314/aqueducts---virgo-part-photograph-parker-john-henry/
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