“Entrata di Pertosa”
Date
1857
Creator
Alphonse Bernoud (1820 - 1889, French) , Photographer
Object type
Archive reference number
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 76mm
width (print): 148mm
height (mount): 86mm
width (mount): 175mm
width (print): 148mm
height (mount): 86mm
width (mount): 175mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Stereoscopic view of earthquake damage to Pertosa, Italy. Landscape study of the southern entrance, with a figure standing among the ruined buildings. Overexposed.
Titled “Entrata di Pertosa” right-hand margin and numbered “149” left-hand margin, front mount. Inscribed verso “Pertosa. Page 251, p.II.”
Unpublished but referenced in Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857: The first principles of observational seismology as developed in the report to the Royal Society..., by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. 149 (Coll. Roy. Soc.) vol. 1, page 274.
Titled “Entrata di Pertosa” right-hand margin and numbered “149” left-hand margin, front mount. Inscribed verso “Pertosa. Page 251, p.II.”
Unpublished but referenced in Great Neapolitan Earthquake of 1857: The first principles of observational seismology as developed in the report to the Royal Society..., by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. 149 (Coll. Roy. Soc.) vol. 1, page 274.
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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