INVENTORY OF VIEWS OF AND , 1860-1895 2003.R.14

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Table of Contents

Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical/Historical Note...... 4 Scope and Content of Collection...... 4 Arrangement...... 4 Administrative Information ...... 4 Controlled Access Headings...... 5 Collection Inventory...... 7 Views of Naples and Pompeii...... 7

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Summary Information

Repository Special Collections

Creator Sommer, Giorgio, 1834-1914

Title Views of Naples and Pompeii

Dates 1860-1895

Extent 15.0 photographic prints

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Language Collection material is in Italian with some English

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

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

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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, .

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 . 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 (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.

Administrative Information

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Access Open for use by qualified researchers.

Publication Rights Contact Library Rights and Reproductions.

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).

Indexing Terms

Contributors(s) • Brogi, Giacomo, 1822-1881

Genres and Forms of Materials • Albumen prints----19th century • Photographic prints--Hand-colored--Italy--19th century • Photomontages--Italy--19th century

Subjects - Places • Italy--Antiquities • Italy--Social life and customs--19th century • Naples (Italy)--Description and travel • Pompeii (Extinct city)

Subjects - Topics • Architecture, Domestic--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city) • Architecture, Roman--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city) • Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city) • House of the Tragic Poet (Pompeii)

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• Tarantella • Temple of Apollo (Pompeii) • Temple of Isis (Pompeii) • Temples, Roman • Temples--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)

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Collection Inventory

Views of Naples and Pompeii Box 1 2003.R.14-1 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Tempio della Fortuna, Napoli Numbered in negative: 1207.

1 2003.R.14-2 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Tempio della Fortuna, Napoli Numbered in negative: 1207. Hand-colored copy of 2003.R.14-1.

1 2003.R.14-3 Giorgio Sommer, Casa del Poeta, Napoli Numbered in negative: 1210. Hand-colored. Atrium with lararium.

1 2003.R.14-4 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Tempio d'Iside, Napoli 1 2003.R.14-5 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Tempio d'Iside, Napoli Numbered in negative: 1216. Hand-colored copy of 2003.R.14-4.

1 2003.R.14-6 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei Casa della gran Balcono, Napoli Numbered in negative: 1256. Hand-colored. With fountain.

1 2003.R.14-7 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei Panorama, Napoli Numbered in negative: 1259. Caption reads: 1259 Pompei Pano, Sommer - Napoli. Hand- colored. View of excavations and Vesuvius.

1 2003.R.14-8 Giorgio Sommer, Templo ____, Napoli Numbered in negative: 1264. Hand-colored.

1 2003.R.14-9 Giorgio Sommer, Pompei, Teatro greco, Napoli Numbered in negative: 1277.

1 2003.R.14-10 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli Tarantella Numbered in negative: 11604. Hand-colored.

1 2003.R.14-11 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli Costume, Napoli Numbered in negative: 11604. Hand-colored. Loaded ox cart in front of cemetery.

1 2003.R.14-12 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli, Costume Numbered in negative: 11621. Caption reads: 11621 - in pencil. 11628 [crossed out] Napoli, Costume, Sommer Napoli. Hand-colored.

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

1 2003.R.14-13 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli, Costume Numbered in negative: 1164[?]. Hand-colored. Women gathered in front of Olii Scelti.

1 2003.R.14-14 Giorgio Sommer, Napoli Costume Hand-colored. Man driving a donkey cart.

1 2003.R.14-15 Brogi, Giocomo, Pompei: Scavi nuovi del 1895, Edizione Brogi Numbered in negative: 10289.

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