Untitled [Panorama of the Roman Forum]

Artist Attributed to Giuseppe Ninci (Italian, 1823-1890)

Date1880s

DimensionsEach sheet (inside the frame): 31 1/2 x 22 1/4 in. (820 x 568 mm)
Triptych (inside the frame): 31 1/2 x 66 3/4 in. (820 x 1704 mm)

Medium3 Albumen silver prints mounted on canvas

ClassificationPhotographs

Credit LineGift of Margaret and Howard Bond

Object number

2003.2A-C

Not on View

DescriptionThis panorama of the Roman Forum is comprised of three albumen silver prints, slightly trimmed, and mounted on canvas in a wood and plexi frame. A date, 1880, is visible on the roof of the Tabularium at the center and so the photographs must have been made in 1880 or later. Several workmen are included in the scene and one has moved so that he is visible in each of the three photographs. These appear to be contact prints from wet plate, collodion on glass negatives (that is, glass plates the same size as the photographic positive prints).

Published Referencescf.: Serena Romano, L’immagine di Roma, 1848--1895: la città, l’archeologia, il medioevo nei calotipi del fondo Tuminello (Napoli: Electa Napoli, c. 1994). cf.: Piero Becchetti, La fotographia a Roma dalle original 1915 (Roma: Colombo, 1997). cf.: Piero Becchetti, Roma nelle fotografie dei Fratelli D’Alessandri, 1858--1930 (Roma: Columbo, 1996). cf.: Pietro Romanelli, The Roman Forum (Rome: La Lireria dello Stato, 1959).