[Two views of Pompeii]. [ca. 1863]

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[Two views of Pompeii]. [ca. 1863]

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The collection consists of two photographs by Giorgio Sommer: No. 1213 Strada delle tombe shows two men in the street looking towards two large tombs with the remains of an aqueduct in the foreground, while No. 1214 Porta d'Ercolano depicts two men lounging around the Herculaneum gate.

2 photographic prints : albumen ; 18.2 x 24.5 cm. or smaller, on mounts 26.5 x 36.5 cm.

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Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914

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German-born photographer Giorgio Sommer opened his photographic studio in Naples in 1857, and published Naples and Surroundings that same year. While his views and genre scenes catered to the tourist trade, Sommer was also keenly interested in documenting archaeological subjects. He photographed Pompeii in 1863, and won a bronze medal for his photographs at the 1867 Exposition universelle, Paris. From the description of [Two views of Pompeii]. [ca. 1863] (Getty Research Institute). W...