Church of St. Maria Maggiore at Vignola, Naples
Date
1857
Creator
Alphonse Bernoud (1820 - 1889, French) , Photographer
Object type
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Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 74mm
width (print): 146mm
height (mount): 84mm
width (mount): 171mm
width (print): 146mm
height (mount): 84mm
width (mount): 171mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Stereoscopic view of earthquake damage to the church of St. Maria Maggiore at Vignola, Naples. Exterior study looking of the apse of the church showing damage to the tower and conical roof.
Titled “Vignola, Chiesa St. Maria Maggiore” in ink, left-hand margin, front mount and numbered “84” in pencil. Inscribed verso “Vignola, page 116, p1.” Ink stain to right-hand print and mount.
Unpublished but referenced in Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857: The first principles of observational seismology as developed in the report to the Royal Society..., by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. 84) (Coll. Roy. Soc.) vol. 1, page 115 on relations to roofing, conical and prismatic. Also mentioned in vol.2, page 71.
Robert Mallet (1810–1881), an Irish civil engineer and geologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1854.
Titled “Vignola, Chiesa St. Maria Maggiore” in ink, left-hand margin, front mount and numbered “84” in pencil. Inscribed verso “Vignola, page 116, p1.” Ink stain to right-hand print and mount.
Unpublished but referenced in Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857: The first principles of observational seismology as developed in the report to the Royal Society..., by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. 84) (Coll. Roy. Soc.) vol. 1, page 115 on relations to roofing, conical and prismatic. Also mentioned in vol.2, page 71.
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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