Credit: © The Royal Society
Image number: RS.8812
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St Bernard's monument, Certosa [earthquake damage]
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1857-1858
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height (print): 273mm
width (print): 206mm
width (print): 206mm
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Description
View of the monument to St Bernard (or St Bruno) near the monastery of Certosa de St Lorenzo, Italy: with manuscript additions indicating areas of fallen and distorted masonery. Inscribed verso in ink "The monument in honour of St. Bernard at the Certosa - Padula" and in pencil top right "face E-W...Photog 225". Reproduced as a lithograph in Mallet's 1862 Report, vol.1 pp.370-371. The original photograph has descriptive captions in French "tourne de gauche a droit" rendered into English in the printed version. Partial captions indicate some cropping of the photograph at the left hand side. 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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