Descriptive Summary
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Photograph album of churches and palaces in Venice, Murano, Padova, and Pisa
Date (inclusive): 1855-1870
Collection number: 94/44
Creator:
Ponti, Carlo, photographer.
Physical Description:
1 album (24 photographic prints) : albumen, 31 x 44 cm (album)
Photographs are mounted on rectos of leaves of stiff white paper, with printed captions on versos in French, or French and
English. The two with bilingual captions also include printed numbers, probably Ponti studio stock numbers. Two photographs
are untitled, while three have brief captions added in pencil or pen. Twenty-one leaves bear the embossed stamps "Carlo Ponti
Venezia" or "Carlo Ponti. Riva dei Schiavoni. Venezia" while two bear the embossed stamp of Carlo Naya: "Naya. Riva Schiavoni.
Venezia."
Bound in dark green sand-grained book cloth, with black sand-grained cloth spine and corners; light brown endpapers. Large
illustrated bookplate of Oscar Browning on front pastedown, with motto "Labor, content ailleurs, theoria", designed by Simeon
Solomon, dated 1870, and wood-engraved by Swain.
Spec. Coll. copy: In modern beige cloth clamshell box with velcro closure; box label reads "Ponti. Venice."
Abstract: Architectural views from 1855-1870, by photographers Carlo Ponti and Carlo Naya, of churches, palaces, and piazzas in Venice,
Murano, Padova, and Pisa.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright
owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Photograph album of churches and palaces in Venice, Murano, Padova, and Pisa (Collection 94/44).
UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID
Biography/History
Well-known Italian photographer and optician of Swiss descent. After studying in Paris with the optician Chauchoix for ten
years, Ponti returned to Italy, and set up a studio in Venice in the early 1850s, where he worked with assistants Giuseppe
Bresolio, Fortunato Antonio Perini and Carlo Naya (1816-1882). The photo viewer he patented in 1859, the Megaletoscope, allowed
users to see photographs "in color." He issued his first catalog--architectural views--in 1855, followed by the album, "Ricordi
di Venezia," in 1860, which consisted of 20 views of Venice, individually selected by each customer. Ponti was later appointed
photographer to King Victor Emmanuele II.
Scope and Content
Six of the large albumen prints are interior and exterior views of the Basilica di San Marco in Venice, including shots of
the facade, the bronze doors, main altar and side chapels. There are several photographs of the Palazzo Ducale: two taken
from the Piazza San Marco, one a close-up of a 15th-century carved capitel at the north corner. Also included is a photograph
of a painting of the great Sala del Maggior Consiglio. The remaining photographs document church exteriors in Venice, Murano,
and Padua, including architectural details of carved figures, columns, and arcades, and the Campo Santo in Pisa. Two of the
photographs are signed by Carlo Naya: figure of a lion atop a column in Piazza San Marco, and the Chiesa di San Antonio di
Padua.
Contents
Façade principale de la Basilique de Saint Marc [2 views] -- Inte?rieur de l'Eglise de Saint Marc -- Chapelle des Fonts-Baptismaux
de l'Eglise de Saint Marc -- No. 223 Venezia. Porta di Bronzo della Sacrestia di S. Marco -- [Untitled] -- Palais Ducal, vu
de la Place -- Angle nord du Palais Ducal -- Salla del Maggior Consiglio nel Palazzo Ducale al tempo della Republica -- [Untitled
view Marc] -- Môle pris du Pont de la Paglia -- Le lion surmontant l'une des deux colonnes de granit dans la petite place
-- Palais Foscari -- Les quatre figures pres de la porte della Carta -- Lion à droite de la Porte de l'Arsenal -- De?tail
du Fondaco dei Turchi -- Abside de l'Église des Saints Maria et Donato, à Murano -- Cathedrale de Torcello et Sainte Fosca
-- Abside della Chiesa dei Frari -- Sainte Marie dell'Orto -- Palais Priuli à San Severo -- Monument de Bartolommeo Colleoni
-- Pisa, Camposanto, Gallerie Interne -- No. 307, Padova. Abside della Chiesa di S. Antonio presa dal Ponte Corvo.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Basilica di San Marco (Venice, Italy) --Photographs.
Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Venice, Italy) --Photographs.
Basilica di Sant'Antonio (Padua, Italy) --Photographs.
Basilica dei Santi Maria e Donato (Murano, Italy) --Photographs.
Palazzo ducale (Venice, Italy) --Photographs.
Palazzo Priuli all'Osmarin (Venice, Italy) --Photographs.
Ca' Foscari (Venice, Italy) --Photographs.
Campo santo di Pisa --Photographs.
Church buildings --Italy --Photographs.
Church architecture --Italy --Photographs.
Palaces --Italy --Photographs.
Piazza San Marco (Venice, Italy) --Photographs.
Venice (Italy) --Buildings, structures, etc. --Photographs.
Murano (Italy) --Buildings, structures, etc. --Photographs.
Pisa (Italy) --Buildings, structures, etc. --Photographs.
Padua (Italy) --Buildings, structures, etc. --Photographs.
Genres and Forms of Material
Albumen prints.
Photographic prints.
Photograph albums.
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Naya, Carlo.
Browning, Oscar, 1837-1923, former owner.
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