Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8806
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"Campostrina, Gorge of the Calore..."
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1857-1858
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height (print): 204mm
width (print): 284mm
width (print): 284mm
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Description
Landscape facing southward along the Calore Gorge, Italy, showing revetment walls of the military road at the left of the image and evidence of a major limestone rock fall. Inscribed verso in ink "No.155 Campostrina, Gorge of the Calore, Great fall of Rock."The image is inscribed upper left "East". Reproduced as a lithograph in Mallet’s 1862 Report, vol.1 pp.284-285. 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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