Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8798
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"Padula" [earthquake damage]
Date
1857-1858
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Dimensions
height (print): 172mm
width (print): 259mm
width (print): 259mm
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Description
View of the hill town of Padula, Italy, with a damaged building [farmhouse?] in the foreground. Inscribed upper left "Padula" in ink, and upper right "14" in pencil. Verso, two versions of the inscription "No.11 - Padula" and instructions "page 33 p.1 reduced size suficiently shadow". Collected by Robert Mallet and reproduced as a lithograph in his 1862 Report, vol.1 pp.30-31.
Object history
From a series of photographs of the aftermath of the earthquake described in Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857: The first principles of observational seismology as developed in the report to the Royal Society..., by Robert Mallet, 2 vols., (London, Chapman and Hall, 1862). Many images were omitted from Mallet's book, but cited as being in this Royal Society collection (MS/225).
For a description of Mallet's expedition and the circumstances and attributions of the photographs see: Graziano Ferrari and Anita McConnell, "Robert Mallet and the 'Great Neapolitan Earthquake' of 1857", Notes and Records of the Royal Society 59 (1) 2005 pp.45-64. “Grellier” is an unidentified photographer, possibly an assistant to Alphonse Bernoud.
For a description of Mallet's expedition and the circumstances and attributions of the photographs see: Graziano Ferrari and Anita McConnell, "Robert Mallet and the 'Great Neapolitan Earthquake' of 1857", Notes and Records of the Royal Society 59 (1) 2005 pp.45-64. “Grellier” is an unidentified photographer, possibly an assistant to Alphonse Bernoud.
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