Coliseum
Catalogue
- Year
- 1862
- Medium
- Albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 30.2 × 41.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Mount: 49 × 64 cm (19 5/16 × 25 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Robert Macpherson
Artist
Photography
Robert Macpherson was a British photographer and antiquarian active in mid-19th-century Rome, where he documented classical sites and Renaissance architecture with large-format paper negatives. Working primarily in albumen print, he produced systematic photographic surveys of Italian cultural patrimony that established him as a pioneering figure in archaeological photography. His archive remains a significant record of Roman monuments and artworks as they existed in the 1850s and 1860s.
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Untitled (Ruins of Roman Forum)
1862 · Albumen print
The Templum Minerva Medica and the Surrounding Area
1861 · albumen print
Ruin of Temple of Minerva Medica, Rome
1860 · Albumen silver print from a wet-collodion glass negative
View of Rome from Monte Pincio
1860 · albumen print on paper, photographic support, cardboard
Palace of the Caesars on the Palatine
1860 · Albumen print
St. Peter's
1858 · albumen print from wet collodion negative
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- Robert Macpherson
- Year
- 1862
- Medium
- Albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 30.2 × 41.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Mount: 49 × 64 cm (19 5/16 × 25 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1862-024637
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified