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Image number: RS.8821
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Monument at Vietri di Potenza
Date
1857-1858
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height (print): 100mm
width (print): 81mm
width (print): 81mm
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Description
Study of the 'small monument' [apparently a drinking fountain] at Vietro di Potenza, with gaps showing between its stone blocks, caused by earthquake forces. Robert Mallet describes the structure as "a small and new, square monumental structure, intended for a water conduit, and to commemorate the completion of a new road...built of well-chiselled blocks of white limestone." Inscribed below, in French: "Petit monument a Vietri (regardant le Nord)". Inscribed in pencil, upper right, "294". Described in Mallet's 1862 Report, vol.2 p.38-41. 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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