Halsted B. Vander Poel Campanian collection - Calisphere

Series V. New editions of early archaeological publications on Pompeii, 1796-1989
Series V.C. Material related to the work of Giuseppe Fiorelli, 1854-1979, undated ...
Box 268, Folder 7 Autograph letters of Guiseppe Fiorelli, 1864-1875
INVENTORY OF THE HALSTED B.
VANDER POEL CAMPANIAN
COLLECTION, circa 1570-1997
Physical Description: 3 leaves, 2 cards
Scope and Content Note
Includes two letters from Fiorelli to Bartolomeo Capasso, notifying him of his
nomination and election to the Accademia di archeologia, lettere e belle arti; a
museum pass and a Herculaneum site pass issued to Antonio Sogliano by Fiorelli;
page of notes by Vander Poel and sales catalog entry.
Box 268, Folder 8 Material for lecture on Fiorelli, 1979,
Box 269, Folder
1-3
Physical Description: 48 leaves, 1 bound copy
Scope and Content Note
Multiple drafts of talk presented at the Commonwealth Club.
Series V.D. Research on the work of Wolfgang Helbig, undated
Physical Description: 0.4 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
In 1868, Wolfgang Helbig (1839-1915) published Wandgemälde der vom Vesuv
verschutteten Städte Campaniens , a catalog of almost 2,000 frescoes from Pompeii,
Herculaneum and Stabiae. The work represented the culmination of five years of research
in Pompeii by Helbig and included every painting excavated up to 1867, arranged by
subject. Although now extremely out of date, the work remains an important tool for the
identification of Campanian paintings.
In his work on Helbig, Vander Poel continued a project begun in the mid 1930's by
Tatiana Warscher (see above Boxes 109-111). This new edition of Helbig would have
provided details and corrections in provenance information and current locations and
inventory numbers where possible, as well as indicating analogies. Vander Poel also
included current bibliographic information. The date of Vander Poel's research on Helbig
is unknown.
Notes on Helbig, undated
Physical Description: 357 leaves with 14 photographs attached, 19 loose
photographs
Scope and Content Note
Handwritten notes, organized by catalog number.
Box 269, Folder 4 Notes for Helbig concordance, undated
Physical Description: 17 leaves
Series V.E. Early drawings of Pompeii by William Light, circa 1824-1828
Physical Description: 0.4 linear feet
Scope and Content Note
William Light (1786-1839) was an English soldier and surveyor, best known as the
founder of Adelaide, Australia. Between postings, Light traveled and sketched in Italy.
Views of Pompeii, a book of lithographs after his drawings, was published in 1828.
Vander Poel intended to identify and document features of the ruins seen in the
drawings. This subseries contains the copy work negatives used by Vander Poel to create
a reproduction of Light's book (see Separated Material section). The date of Vander Poel's
research on Light is unknown.
Box 592, Folder 6 Copy work negatives
Physical Description: 59 negatives; 4 x 5 in.
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