Daguerreotype: 1890-56-R10 1841-06-1841-06

Collection: National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom i
Language: English
Type: European
Deeplink: http://www.daguerreobase.org/en/type/d5c1fc68-2862-a9fe-5bef-f58f90933a19

Identification

1890-56-R10

Dated

Source: inscription
Begin: 1841-06
End: 1841-06

Image description

Part of a panoramic view of Rome, looking out from the Capitol Tower. In the foreground on the right is a long building with a white frontage. In the distance, a range of different houses, churches, towers, formal and informal buildings are unclear due to the damage to the daguerreotype. Hills beyond. See Encylopaedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography edited by John Hannavy, p481

Tags

cityscape; landscape; roof; tower; tile; window; chimney; lantern; cupola; church; horizon; hill; sky

Links

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Kd5cAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA481&dq=Morelli+view+rome&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RUq-VJvMJsfeaom4gMAG&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Morelli%20view%20rome&f=false
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GDSRJQ3BZ5EC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=ellis+daguerreotype&source=bl&ots=hSo9oe1EG6&sig=egVFXglouOt3KC9M-MqC9ldcURs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwijm_3cn_PKAhXCPBQKHb1wASMQ6AEIODAH#v=onepage&q=ellis%20daguerreotype&f=false

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Object

Subject location

Rome

Identification

1890-56-R10

Dated

Source: inscription
Begin: 1841-06
End: 1841-06

Number of plates

Remarks general

Part of the Ellis group of daguerreotypes.

Assessments

Provenance

Ellis Collection, from the Ellis family

Title

Rome. Panorama from the Capitol Tower. No 10

Image description

Subject name

Inscription

Written in ink on central paper label on verso: 'No 10 Rome. Panorama from the Capitol Tower. June 1841 By Achille Morelli No [in pencil] 10'

Keyword technique

daguerreotype

links

Stereo plates

Window size

Height: 158 mm / 6.22 inch
Width: 209 mm / 8.23 inch

Housing size

Height: 274 mm / 10.79 inch
Width: 337 mm / 13.27 inch
Depth: 13.5 mm / 0.53 inch

Window shape

Rectangle

Housing shape

Rectangle

Collection

Identifier: National Media Museum, Bradford, United Kingdom
Description: UK-INS-NMeM

Creator

Name: Morelli, Achille
notes: Commissioned by Dr Alexander John Ellis to take landscape daguerreotypes in Italy.
nationality: Italy

Assessment

Previous altering: No
Treated: No
Frame: Unchanged
Housing: Unchanged

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Housing

Mat

Material

Paper

Color

Light orange

Decoration design

no decoration

Spacing paper

Painted: No
Texture: No
Present: Unknown

Painted

Case

Rails decoration remarks

Cover

Rails

Decoration remarks
Present: Unknown
Decoration present: Unknown

Cushion present

Unknown

Retainer

Present: Unknown

Insert

Present: Unknown

Interior tray retainer present

Unknown

Rails present

Unknown

Metal foil preserver present

Unknown

Binding

Frame

Material: Wood
Colour: Dark brown

Finishing paper

Backing

Material

Wood

description

original pine, frame backboard

Label annotations

Written in ink on central paper label on verso: 'No 10 Rome. Panorama from the Capitol Tower. June 1841 By Achille Morelli No [in pencil] 10' Written paper label adhered to side of frame 'R 10'.

Recessed

Unknown

Access panel present

Unknown

Hanging system

Present: Unknown

Finishing paper

Unknown

Cover glass

Present: Yes
Painted: No
Strass: Unknown
Decoration: None

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Plate

Polishing lines

Annotation

Surface

Goldtoning present: Unknown
Coating present: Unknown
Applied coloring present: Unknown

Securing

Securing retained by housing: Unknown

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Hallmark

No plate-mark information available for this record

Gallery

Rights on every image:: Creative Commons – Attribution Non-commercial, Share Alike (BY-NC-SA)

Before conservation