VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING A. DE BONIS FOR JOHN HENRY PARKER (1806-1884)
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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING A. DE BONIS FOR JOHN HENRY PARKER (1806-1884)

Archaeology of Rome, late 1860s-1870s

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VARIOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS INCLUDING A. DE BONIS FOR JOHN HENRY PARKER (1806-1884)
Archaeology of Rome, late 1860s-1870s
A Selection of Historical Photographs illustrative of the Walls and Gates of the Empire and of the Popes, London: Edward Stanford [1870s], with 30 albumen prints, each approximately 8½ x 7 in. (21.6 x 17.7 cm.), printed title labels numbered in sequence, contents, preface, title, cloth, titled in gilt on front cover, 4to.; Historical Photographs. A Catalogue of Upwards of Eighteen hundred Photographs of the Antiquities of Rome..., Oxford: 1870, ex-libris copy, paper wrappers, 8vo.; A Catalogue of Three Thousand Three Hundred Photographs of Antiquities in Rome and Italy...., London: Edward Stanford, 1879, brown cloth, 8vo.; six other volumes on the Archaeology of Rome, 1874-1878, brown cloth, 8vo.; four albums of photographs, containing a total of approximately 300 albumen prints, varying in size from 3 x 3 5/8 in. (7.8 x 9.3 cm.) to 14 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (37.2 x 26.9 cm.), five signed AdB in the negatives, three credited de Bonis on printed title labels, the majority titled on printed labels or in ink on mounts, Parker catalogue numbers in the negatives, various bindings, two 4to., one oblong 4to. and one folio (disbound); with Journal of a Tour in Italy in 1869, attributed to G. R. Simpson, three copies, each extra-illustrated with photographs.
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John Henry Parker was an architectural historian, antiquarian and publisher, who commissioned several photographers, many of them Italian, to photograph the principal Roman monuments and antiquities. This work specialised in showing archaeological detail, excavations and historical aspects of the subjects. The photographs differ from the more usual views selected by commercial photographers whose main interest was in selling attractive images to tourists and travellers.

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