Finding Aid for Benito Panunzi, Fotografia Artistica: Album de Vistas y Costumbres de Buenos Aires, circa 1860-circa 1869

Beth Guynn

Descriptive Summary

Title: Benito Panunzi, Fotografia Artistica: Album de Vistas y Costumbres de Buenos Aires

Date (inclusive): circa 1860-circa 1869

Number: 92.R.4

Creator/Collector: Panunzi, Benito

Physical Description: 23 photographic prints

Repository:

The Getty Research Institute

Special Collections

1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100

Los Angeles 90049-1688

reference@getty.edu

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

(310) 440-7390

Abstract: A set of 23 Buenos Aires cityscapes and images of gaucho and ranch life in Argentina by Benito Panunzi, issued in periodic fascicles.

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Language: Collection material is in Spanish; Castilian

Biographical/Historical Note

The Italian photographer, engineer and architect, Benito Panunzi (1819-1894), arrived in Argentina in 1861 where he worked as a photographer specializing in views of Buenos Aires and scenes of rural life for several years before turning his professional energies to architecture. His photographic oeuvre includes his Album Panunzi (1868).

Administrative Information

Access

Open for use by qualified researchers.

Publication Rights

Contact Library Rights and Reproductions .

Preferred Citation

Benito Panunzi, Fotografia artistica: album de vistas y costumbres de Buenos Aires, circa 1860-circa 1869, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no. 92.R.4.

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa92r4

Acquisition Information

Acquired in 1992.

Processing History

Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). Finding aid revised Guynn in 2019.

Existence and Location of Copies

The collection was digitized by the repository in 2018 and the images are available online:

http://hdl.handle.net/10020/92r4

Scope and Content of Collection

Benito Panunzi's photographs in this set of Buenos Aires cityscapes and images of gaucho and ranch life were issued in 12 periodic fascicles of two photographs each, accompanied by a printed paper wrapper. Included are views of the cathedral, plazas with surrounding architectural landmarks, the railroad station and the harbor, as well as scenes of country life.

The 12 fascicles were titled Fotografia artistica: album de vistas y costumbres de Buenos Aires / trabajos de Benito Panunzi, Profesor de dibujo y retratista al oleo Entrega XII , and numbered I-XII. Subscription information printed on the wrappers stated: Por la suscripcion en la casa de los Señores Fusoni Hermanos, Cangallo 120; Mackern Hermanos, San Martin 44; J. Pini y Roncorani Hermanos, Cangallo y Florida.

The set lacks the photograph Mercado de frutos del pais, (see: Goldschmidt and Naef, The Truthful Lens, no. 109).

The photographer's name, B. Panunzi, is printed on the mount below each photograph.

Captions are transcribed as they appear printed on mounts below the images.

Arrangement

In original order.

Indexing Terms

Subjects - Topics

Architecture -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires

Gauchos -- Argentina

Harbors -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires

Subjects - Places

Argentina -- History -- 1860-1910

Buenos Aires (Argentina) -- Buildings, structures, etc.

Argentina -- Description and travel

Genres and Forms of Material

Albumen prints -- Argentina -- 19th century

Contributors

Panunzi, Benito

Series I. Benito Panunzi, Fotografia Artistica: Album de Vistas y Costumbres de Buenos Aires, circa 1860-circa 1869

box 1

92.R.4-1 Estación del ferro carril del Retiro

box 1

92.R.4-2 Camino de Barrancas

box 1

92.R.4-3 Gran Instituto sanitario modelo en la barranca de Santa Lucia

box 1

92.R.4-4 Paseo de Julio

box 1

92.R.4-5 Plaza de Parque

box 1

92.R.4-6 Paseo Colón

box 1

92.R.4-7 Teatro Colón

box 1

92.R.4-8 La Catedral y la residencia de Arzobispo

box 1

92.R.4-9 Plaza 25 de Mayo

box 1

92.R.4-10 Aduana nueva en la calle Victoria

box 1

92.R.4-11 La aduana en el rio

box 2

92.R.4-12 Recoleta

box 2

92.R.4-13 Plaza de la Victoria

box 2

92.R.4-14 Muelle

box 2

92.R.4-15 Monumento S. Martin

box 2

92.R.4-16 Tropa de carretas

box 2

92.R.4-17 Pobladores del campo

box 2

92.R.4-18 Una pulpería a la frontera

box 2

92.R.4-19 Rancho y ombu

box 2

92.R.4-20 Toldos de indios en la pampa

box 2

92.R.4-21 Corrales de abasto

box 2

92.R.4-22 Una escena del campo

box 2

92.R.4-23 El corral

Scope and Content Note

Photo of engraving.