Bloomsbury Auctions

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BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
Lot 602
Lot 603
Lot 604
Lot 605
602. Caneva (Giacomo) th e po n t e ro t t o a n d t h e iS o l a ti b e r i n a
light albumen print from a paper negative, 168 x 252mm, hinged to
paper support with pencil note: From the Popham Album, c.1850
£750 - £1,000
*** 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.
The date is before 1853 when an iron extension to the bridge was
built. cf. Becchetti, Canova, p.96, illustrated; Vu d’Italie 1841-1941
La Photographie Italienne dans les Collections du Musée Alinari,
2004 p.54, both illustrating a variant
603. Caneva (Giacomo) th e po n t e ro t t o, iS o l a ti b e r i n a a n d
t h e po n t e fa b r i C i u S light albumen print from a paper negative,
154 x 217mm, hinged to paper support with pencil note: From the
Popham Album, light spotting in sky, c.1850 £600 - £800
*** 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
cf. Becchetti, Canova, p.96, illustrated; Vu d’Italie 1841-1941 La
Photographie Italienne dans les Collections du Musée Alinari,
2004 p.54, both illustrating a variant
604. Caneva (Giacomo) th e po n t e ro t t o light albumen print
from a paper negative, 182 x 272mm, hinged to paper support with
pencil note: From the Popham Album, c.1850 £750 - £1,000
*** 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
cf. Becchetti, Canova, p.96, illustrated; Vu d’Italie 1841-1941 La
Photographie Italienne dans les Collections du Musée Alinari,
2004 p.54, both illustrating a variant
605. Caneva (Giacomo), printed by Tuminello te m p l e o f ve S ta;
vi l l a bo r g h e S e, t h e te m p l e o f ae S C u l a p i u S; vi l l a bo r g h e S e
g a r d e n three albumen prints from paper negatives, 220 x 322mm
to 257 x 322mm, signed Tuminello Roma in the negative, hinged at
edges to paper supports; and another, Garden of the Villa Albani,
possibly from a negative by Caneva, 1850s, printed after 1869 (4)
£400 - £600
*** The photographer Ludovico Tuminello returned to Rome
from political exile in Turin in 1869 and acquired and published
Caneva’s negatives after the latter’s death in 1865. Caneva’s prints
of the first two listed are illustrated in Becchetti, Caneva, pp 66 and
84, the first a variant without the cart