646 - ROMA presa dalla Cupola di S. Pietro
James Anderson (1813 - 1877)
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
199 x 257 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890134.12
Summary
A professional photograph of a view of Rome taken from St. Peter's Basilica, looking over St. Peter's Square and the city beyond. Hills in distance. 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) 646 - ROMA presa dalla Cupola di S Pietro Anderson
Makers and roles
James Anderson (1813 - 1877), photographer