Pompei mosaic of a dog "Cave Canem"
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1888
Materials
Paper
Measurements
120 x 105 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520697.19
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a Roman mosaic depicting a dog in a frame and the words "CAVE CANEM". The print is mounted on the upper centre of the white stiff card page. The photograph is in portrait format and has straight edged corners. Markings: Bottom of the page, below the photograph, handwritten in ink and underlined, are the words: '"Mosaic from Pompei". The photograph is on a page entitled "The Museum Naples".
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986