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Primitive Fortifications - Photograph of the Wall of the Kings in the Garden of Sallust, near the west end, under the cliff (over which the House of Spithoever is now built).

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

Photograph of the Wall of the Kings in the Garden of Sallust, near the west end, under the cliff, Rome, Italy


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Topography
Photographs of Italy
Object type
Photograph
TitlePrimitive Fortifications - Photograph of the Wall of the Kings in the Garden of Sallust, near the west end, under the cliff (over which the House of Spithoever is now built).
Materials and techniques
Photography
Brief description
Photograph of the Wall of the Kings in the Garden of Sallust, near the west end, under the cliff, Rome, Italy
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
70300

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Record createdMarch 24, 2015
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1311876/primitive-fortifications---photograph-photograph-parker-john-henry/
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