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Aqueducts - View of the Specus of a branch of the Aqua Virgo (?), in the Catacomb of S. Priscilla in the Via Salaria, the Specus half filled up with clay deposit.

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

Photograph of a drawing depicting a view of the specus of a branch of the Aqua Virgo (?) in the central catacomb of S. Priscilla in the Via Salaria, the specus is half filled with clay deposit, Rome

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Topography
Archaeology
Object type
Photograph
TitleAqueducts - View of the Specus of a branch of the Aqua Virgo (?), in the Catacomb of S. Priscilla in the Via Salaria, the Specus half filled up with clay deposit.
Materials and techniques
Photography
Brief description
Photograph of a drawing depicting a view of the specus of a branch of the Aqua Virgo (?) in the central catacomb of S. Priscilla in the Via Salaria, the specus is half filled with clay deposit, 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
70382

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Record createdMarch 11, 2015
Record URL
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