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ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860] image 1
ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860] image 2
ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860] image 3
ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860] image 4
ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860] image 5
ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860] image 6
ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860] image 7
ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860] image 8
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ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY
MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), [c.1860]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
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ITALY - PHOTOGRAPHY

MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of nineteen large views in Rome, [c.1860]; and 18 other albumen prints, including Venice (12, attributable to Carlo Ponti), paintings (3), Florence, and Orvieto (2), albumen prints, each mounted on stiff card album sheets recto only, pencil captions in English on the mounts, disbound, images approximately 360 x 280mm or 290 x 405mm. or slightly smaller, [c.1860]

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Scottish painter Robert Macpherson (1814-1872) settled in Rome in the 1830s, and began experimenting in photography in 1851, specialising in views of the city and its artistic treasures. "In 1858 he contributed 120 prints to the exhibition of the Architectural Photographic Association. His earlier experience as a painter proved invaluable in the choice of effective viewpoints, and his interpretations of classical architecture were unsurpassed in their aesthetic power and sophistication" (ODNB).

Rome images comprise: The Capitol from the Forum; Temple of Vespasian; Colosseum; Meta Sudans looking towards the Arch of Titus; Arch of Titus (2 views, 2 details); Arch of Constantine; Forum and Trajan's Column; Temple of Vesta; The Pantheon; Portico of Pallas Minerva; Temple of Fortuna Virilius; Porta San Paolo with the Pyramid of Cestius; detail of the Antonine; cloisters of San Paolo; View across the Tiber towards St. Peter's and Castel Sant'Angelo; View of the Forum.

Provenance: The Wills Collection.

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