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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.
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.
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Views of Naples and Pompeii, 1860-1895, Getty Research Institute, Research Library,
Accession no. 2003.R.14
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa2003r14
Acquired in 2003.
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.
No discernible original order; arranged by cataloger.
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)
Pompeii (Extinct city)
Naples (Italy) -- Description and travel
Italy -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
Italy -- Antiquities
Photomontages -- Italy -- 19th century
Photographic prints -- Hand-colored -- Italy -- 19th
century
Albumen prints -- Italy -- 19th century
Brogi, Giacomo,
1822-1881
Sommer, Giorgio,
1834-1914