“Cathedral, Tito”
Date
1857
Creator
Alphonse Bernoud (1820 - 1889, French) , Photographer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 69mm
width (print): 144mm
height (mount): 85mm
width (mount): 175mm
width (print): 144mm
height (mount): 85mm
width (mount): 175mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Stereoscopic view of earthquake damage to the Cathedral of Tito, Naples. Landscape study showing the ruined building with exposed interior archways and fragments of the lateral domes. Figures can be seen standing among the rubble and fallen timbers.
Numbered “82” in pencil and titled in pen “Tito, Cathedral” right-hand margin, front mount. Inscribed verso “Tito, Page 115, P.1” in pencil.
Unpublished but referenced in Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857: The first principles of observational seismology as developed in the report to the Royal Society..., by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). Photog. (No. 82) (Coll. Roy. Soc.) vol. 1, page 114. On the effects on domed roofs.
Robert Mallet (1810–1881), an Irish civil engineer and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1854.
Numbered “82” in pencil and titled in pen “Tito, Cathedral” right-hand margin, front mount. Inscribed verso “Tito, Page 115, P.1” in pencil.
Unpublished but referenced in Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857: The first principles of observational seismology as developed in the report to the Royal Society..., by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). Photog. (No. 82) (Coll. Roy. Soc.) vol. 1, page 114. On the effects on domed roofs.
Robert Mallet (1810–1881), an Irish civil engineer and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1854.
Object history
With the support of the Royal Society, Mallet undertook a survey of the damage caused by the 1857 earthquake in Basilicata, in the Kingdom of Naples, to advance his theories of seismic waves. Two French photographers, Alphonse Bernoud and an unidentified man known as Grellier, were employed to photograph the affected region. 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.
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