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Photograph

1859 (photographed), 1869 (published)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

An albumen photograph in a bound album of twenty albumen photographs of Roman architecture.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Albumen print
Brief description
Photograph by Pietro Dovizielli, 'Villa Albani, designed by Cardinal Alessandro Albani, ca. 1750', albumen print, 1859, from the album 'Arcades at Rome, chiefly of the Renaissance period' published by the Arundel Society under the sanction of the Science and Art Department, London, 1869
Physical description
An albumen photograph in a bound album of twenty albumen photographs of Roman architecture.
Dimensions
  • Album height: 480mm
  • Album width: 405mm
Subject depicted
Place depicted
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Barnes, Martin and Christopher Whitehead, ‘The ‘Suggestiveness’ of Roman Architecture: Henry Cole and Pietro Dovizielli’s Photographic Survey of 1859’, Architectural History, 41 (1998), pp. 192-207.
  • Arcades at Rome Chiefly of the Renaissance Period. From the series: Examples of Art Workmanship of Various Ages and Countries, Under the Sanction of the Science and Art Department, with photographs by Pietro Dovizielli. London: Arundel Society, 1869.
Collection
Accession number
69343

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Record createdJune 10, 2019
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