639 - ROMA Veduta del Fiume.
James Anderson (1813 - 1877)
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 (circa)
Materials
Measurements
202 x 263 mm
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 890134.13
Summary
A professional photograph looking across a river, River Tiber, towards the Castel Sant Angelo, with arched bridge on left and dome of St. Peter's in distance. An open boat with two men with fishing net is in the foreground, two children on the sand in front of it. Another man with child sits on the sand. 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) 639 - ROMA Veduta del Fiume. Anderson
Makers and roles
James Anderson (1813 - 1877), photographer