325 Roma - Foro Romano preso dalla torre del Campidoglio
James Anderson (1813 - 1877)
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
201 x 262 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890134.10
Summary
A professional photograph of Rome looking over ruins with triumphal arch on left, columns and ruins on the right and the modern city stretching away on the left. The Colosseum is just visible in the centre of the photograph. Contained in a brown leather photograph album with tooled pattern on spine and front and back covers containing thirty six pages with gold blocked edges and holding seventy six photographs. c.1900
Provenance
A gift from the Hon. Gerald Agar-Robartes, 1883-1966, later 7th Viscount Clifden, who gave Lanhydrock to the National Trust in 1953 and continued to live there with his sisters, Everilda and Violet, until his death in 1966. The family were great travellers and travelled throughout Europe.
Marks and inscriptions
Across bottom of photograph: (printed in black) 325 - ROMA - Foro Romano preso dalla torre del Campidoglio Anderson
Makers and roles
James Anderson (1813 - 1877), photographer