Live auction - Lot 656
[Italy]
Photo album Italy.
ALINARI FRATELLI
Hammer price: €
650
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Late 19th c.-early 20th c
98 gelatin silver prints, 8,8 x 25,1 cm, slipped in with the corners, mostly legends on the photos.
Kept in an obl. 4to-size ad hoc purple cloth album (sl. rubbed).
Views of Rome: the Porta S. Sebastiano, Via Appia, Colombario dei Liberti dei Cesari; Tivoli: Temple of Vesta, Aniene Falls, Villa Adriana; Naples: Posilipo, Strada di Santa Lucia, Piazza del Plebiscito, Galeria Umberto I, vendors of macaroni and the process of drying the macaroni on top of a factory, statues and sculptures in the National Museum, the Vesuvius, etc. Furthermore photos of Pompei, Pozzuoli, Vico Equense, Sorrento, Firenze, Verona, etc. showing panoramas, interiors and exteriors of monuments, reproductions of paintings, etc.