Lucca Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Martino), Lucca
Photograph
1860-1880
1860-1880
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Photograph of the Lucca Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Martino), Lucca. This object forms part of a selection of photographs that have been collected, commissioned or acquired by John Wharlton Bunney throughout the 1870s until the 1880s. John Ruskin sent Bunney to Lucca at the end of 1866 and he stayed there for 3.5 weeks drawing for Ruskin and sketching for himself. The Ashmoleon Museum has three of Bunney's Lucca drawings that Ruskin gave to the Drawing School on Oxford.
Object details
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| Title | Lucca Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Martino), Lucca |
| Materials and techniques | Albumen print |
| Brief description | Photograph of the Lucca Cathedral (Cattedrale di San Martino), Lucca. This object forms part of a selection of photographs that have been collected, commissioned or acquired by John Wharlton Bunney throughout the 1870s until the 1880s. John Ruskin sent Bunney to Lucca at the end of 1866 and he stayed there for 3.5 weeks drawing for Ruskin and sketching for himself. The Ashmoleon Museum has three of Bunney's Lucca drawings that Ruskin gave to the Drawing School on Oxford. |
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| Credit line | Given by S. E. Bunney |
| Object history | This photograph belongs to a group of photographs collected by John Wharlton Bunney (1828-1882) who was a painter of topographical and landscape scenes in the nineteenth century. Some of these photographs may have been used by him as a reference for his works. |
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| Accession number | E.81-2019 |
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| Record created | April 15, 2019 |
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