Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8805
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"Porte Cochere...near Auletta" [earthquake damage]
Date
1857-1858
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Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 270mm
width (print): 270mm
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Description
Arched gateway leading to the Villa Carusso exhibiting structural cracks of up to four inches in width. Inscribed verso in ink "No.138 The Porte Cochere on the Military Road Villa Carusso near Auletta" with an instruction to the printer in pencil "reduce". A partial inscription is visible in the upper left of the photograph "Carusso" and "138" in pencil. Reproduced as a lithograph in Mallet’s 1862 Report, vol.1 pp.270-271. Collected by Robert Mallet.
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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