Not currently on display at the V&A

Photograph

ca. 1870 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Photograph mounted on card


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Photograph
Brief description
Photograph from the Parker Collection of a bas-relief from the tomb of the Aterii, photographed in the Lateran Museum, Rome
Physical description
Photograph mounted on card
Dimensions
  • Height of card mount height: 33cm
  • Width of card mount width: 26.6cm
Object history
This 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.
Bibliographic reference
Label pasted on mount
Collection
Accession number
70780

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Record createdMarch 23, 2016
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