Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8807
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Pallazzo Palmieri, Polla
Date
1857-1858
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height (print): 89mm
width (print): 85mm
width (print): 85mm
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Description
View of the Pallazzo Palimieri, Polla, Italy, viewed across the River Calore, foregrounding the approach by bridge. Inscribed in pencil verso "Polla". The card mount has an inscription in French below the photograph, "Palais Palmieri a Polla 176 (regardant le Nord-Est", "Nord" struck through. Annotated above "Note. The Buildings appear out of Level only through some Photographic error." A detailed description of earthquake damage to the building appears in Mallet’s 1862 Report, vol.1 p.301-316. 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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