The House of Counelius Rufus, Pompei, Italy
Category
Photographs
Date
1883
Materials
Paper
Measurements
200 x 250 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520697.38
Summary
An albumen print photograph depicting the ruins of The House of Cornelius Rufus in Pompei, Italy. The print is mounted onto a white stiff card page on the lefthand side within an album. The photograph is in landscape format and has diagonally cut corners. Markings: Bottom of the page, below the photograph, handwritten in ink and underlined, are the words: The House of Cornelius Rufus, Pompei'
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