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Roberto Rive (1817 - 1868 ): Mountain top with lava of Vesuvius, testimony of time, c. 1880, albumen paper print
Technique: albumen paper print, mounted on Cardboard
Inscription: lower left inscribed in the printing plate: "298. Napoli. Il Cono con la Lava del Vesuvio.".
Date: c. 1880
Description: Photograph presumably by the photographer Roberto Rive, who worked in Italy from 1860 to 1889. He worked as a landscape and portrait photographer in Naples and took part in the 1867 World's Fair in Paris. His studio produced photographs of Naples, Pompei, Capri, Amalfi and Sicily. Original photography with high sharpness of detail. An early testimony to travel photography. Around the middle of the 19th century, more and more tourists from middle-class circles travelled to Italy. At that time, photographs could only be taken with a great deal of time and expensive, unwieldy equipment. This made many tourists all the more grateful for the work of the professional photographer's studios on site to bring back a souvenir from afar for those who stayed at home or to collect as souvenirs. Famous photographers such as Carlo Naya, Giorgio Sommer or the Alinari brothers photographed the most famous sights of their home cities and went on journeys themselves to photograph the most popular destinations of their clients and offer them as albumen prints. Ancient art treasures were also photographed and offered to travellers. The high-quality photographs of sculptures and frescoes continued to make an important contribution to documenting art treasures and making them accessible to scholars from all over Europe, who previously had to rely on tracings or engravings if they could not view the original for themselves.
Keywords: Italy view, travel photography, architectural photography, documentation, documentary photography, photo album, lava, Vesuvius, 19th century, Historicism, Landscape, Italy,
- Creation Year:c. 1880
- Dimensions:Height: 9.14 in (23.2 cm)Width: 11.3 in (28.7 cm)
- Period:
- Condition:Rather good condition. The photograph is discoloured due to its age and spotted in places in the upper half of the image, upper right corner of the sheet with a fine crease; backing slightly bent and foxed due to mounting.
- Gallery Location:Frankfurt am Main, DE
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