Piedigrotta - a tunnel under the hill of Posilipo, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1883 - 1888
Materials
Paper
Measurements
250 x 201 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520697.27
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a painting in the museum at Naples, Italy.The print depicts a large tall tunnel with people donkey and hay cat and animals passing through. The print is mounted onto a white stiff card page on the lefthand side within an album. The photograph is in portrate format and has diagonally cut corners. Markings: Bottom of the page, below the photograph, handwritten in ink and underlined, are the words: 'Piedigrotta - a tunnel under the hill of Posilipo'
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