Finding Air for Views of Naples and Pompeii, 1860-1895

Beth Guynn

Descriptive Summary

Title: Views of Naples and Pompeii

Date (inclusive): 1860-1895

Number: 2003.R.14

Creator/Collector: Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914

Physical Description: 15 photographic prints

Repository:

The Getty Research Institute

Special Collections

1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100

Los Angeles 90049-1688

Business Number: (310) 440-7390

Fax Number: (310) 440-7780

reference@getty.edu

URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10020/askref

(310) 440-7390

Abstract: The collection of photographs includes views of Pompeii and excavations as well as images from Sommers' Napoli Costume series.

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Language: Collection material is in Italian with some English.

Biographical/Historical Note

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.

Administrative Information

Access

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Publication Rights

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Preferred Citation

Views of Naples and Pompeii, 1860-1895, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 2003.R.14

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2003r14

Acquisition Information

Acquired in 2003.

Processing History

Processed and cataloged by Beth Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR).

Scope and Content of Collection

This collection of 15 albumen prints includes nine views of Pompeii and excavations, four images from Sommers' Napoli Costume series, and a depiction of the tarantella dance. Buildings represented include the temples of Apollo, Fortuna Augusta, and Isis, the theater or odeon, and the House of the Balcony and the House of the Tragic Poet. A scene of the tarantella (ca. 1880s), is a photomontage with figures taken from earlier Sommers photographs. Also included is a view of the excavations at Pompeii in 1895 by Giacomo Brogi.

Twelve of the photographs are hand-colored. There are both black and white and hand-colored prints of the Temple of Isis (Sommers #1216), and the Temple of Fortuna Augusta (Sommers #1207).

The photographs are numbered, titled, and credited in the negative in Italian or English.

Arrangement

No discernible original order; arranged by cataloger.

Indexing Terms

Subjects - Topics

Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)

Architecture, Roman -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)

Architecture, Domestic -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)

House of the Tragic Poet (Pompeii)

Temples, Roman

Tarantella

Temple of Isis (Pompeii)

Temple of Apollo (Pompeii)

Temples -- Italy -- Pompeii (Extinct city)

Subjects - Places

Pompeii (Extinct city)

Naples (Italy) -- Description and travel

Italy -- Social life and customs -- 19th century

Italy -- Antiquities

Genres and Forms of Material

Photomontages -- Italy -- 19th century

Photographic prints -- Hand-colored -- Italy -- 19th century

Albumen prints -- Italy -- 19th century

Contributors

Brogi, Giacomo, 1822-1881

Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914

Views of Naples and Pompeii

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2003.R.14-1 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Tempio della Fortuna, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1207.

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2003.R.14-2 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Tempio della Fortuna, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1207. Hand-colored copy of 2003.R.14-1.

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2003.R.14-3 Giorgio Sommer, Casa del Poeta, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1210. Hand-colored.

Atrium with lararium.

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2003.R.14-4 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Tempio d'Iside, Napoli

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2003.R.14-5 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Tempio d'Iside, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1216. Hand-colored copy of 2003.R.14-4.

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2003.R.14-6 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei Casa della gran Balcono, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1256. Hand-colored.

With fountain.

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2003.R.14-7 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei Panorama, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1259. Caption reads: 1259 Pompei Pano, Sommer - Napoli. Hand-colored.

View of excavations and Vesuvius.

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2003.R.14-8 Giorgio Sommer, Templo ____, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1264. Hand-colored.

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2003.R.14-9 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Teatro greco, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1277.

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2003.R.14-10 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli Tarantella

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 11604. Hand-colored.

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2003.R.14-11 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli Costume, Napoli

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 11604. Hand-colored.

Loaded ox cart in front of cemetery.

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2003.R.14-12 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli, Costume

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 11621. Caption reads: 11621 - in pencil. 11628 [crossed out] Napoli, Costume, Sommer Napoli. Hand-colored.

Laundry or clothes; verso contains view of man and woman on horseback in front of large haystack.

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2003.R.14-13 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli, Costume

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 1164[?]. Hand-colored.

Women gathered in front of Olii Scelti.

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2003.R.14-14 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli Costume

Scope and Content Note

Hand-colored.

Man driving a donkey cart.

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2003.R.14-15 Brogi, Giocomo, Pompei: Scavi nuovi del 1895, Edizione Brogi

Scope and Content Note

Numbered in negative: 10289.