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The Vatican, Rome

Photograph
Artist/Maker
Jones, Calvert Richard Rev.

Salted paper print of the Vatican in Rome, plate 73 on a page in the album. One of 82 photographs in album.
Title from handwritten contents page.


Object details

Categories
Photographs
Portraits
The Royal Photographic Society
RPS Digitisation Project
Object type
Photograph
Titles
  • The Vatican, Rome (generic title)
  • 63. View of the Vatican, Roms, 2nd series (alternative title)
Materials and techniques
Salted paper print from a calotype negative. Not available for issue to the public in the Prints and Drawings Study Room due to light sensitivity. Please contact the Photography Department via our enquiry service for further information.
Salted Paper
Calotype
Photography
Brief description
Photograph by Rev. Calvert R Jones, The Vatican in Rome, salted paper print from a calotype negative.
Physical description
Salted paper print of the Vatican in Rome, plate 73 on a page in the album. One of 82 photographs in album.
Title from handwritten contents page.
Dimensions
  • Image height: 157mm
  • Image width: 203mm
Credit line
The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Object history
This album contains museum numbers RPS.269:1-2017 to RPS.269:82-2017.
Production
From a negative at the National Science and Media Museum, 1937-4529; same as photographs at the National Science and Media Museum, 1937-4530.
Associated object
RPS.269-2017 (Album)
Bibliographic reference
The photographic work of Calvert Richard Jones, by Rollin Buckman (London: H.M.S.O. for the Science Museum, 1990): cc9.
Other numbers
  • RPS025073 - Royal Photographic Society number
  • RPS v.42-73 - Royal Photographic Society number
Collection
Department of Photography
Accession number
RPS.269:73-2017

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Record createdApril 5, 2017
Record URL
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