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596. Caneva (Giacomo) pi a z z a nav o n a salt print from a paper
negative, 210 x 268mm, repairs to extreme corners and to 5cm tear,
c.1850 £1,500 - £2,000
*** P.Becchetti, Giacomo Caneva e la Scuola Fotografica Romana,
1989, p.73, illustrated
597. Caneva (Giacomo) ar C o d e i pa n ta n i light albumen print
from a paper negative, 247 x 176mm, hinged to paper support,
verso with pencil note: From the Popham Album, c.1852
£1,000 - £1,500
*** Provenance: From an album compiled by A.E.Popham (1889-
1970), British Museum Keeper of Prints and Drawings and scholar
of Italian art; a gift to the present owner. Another example, with the
cart as here, was in the collection of Bernardino Montañés (1825-
1893), sold Soler y Lach, Barcelona, 28 May 2009, lot 9; Becchetti,
Caneva, p.60, illustrated, a variant without the cart
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❦ Photographs
The Property of a Gentleman
A collection of architectural photographs acquired since the 1960s. The collector, an art historian, has a profound knowledge
of the architecture of Rome and set out to record the changing face of the city between 1850 and 1880. Perceptive
pencil notes on the mounts, based solely on internal evidence, enable many of the photographs to be more accurately dated
than hitherto. Here, for example, are his observations on a view of St Peter’s Square: “After 1854 (glazing of lower loggia),
before c.1860 (Vatican Palace clock still present), probably c.1858-60 (second type of lamp post base).”
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