The William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné

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Object within Schaaf no. 3003

20. Cathedral Messina, Sicily, 2nd series

Object details

Created: Between 1 Feb 1846 and 31 May 1846

Image size: h 21.7cm x w 16.8cm

Paper size: h 22.6cm x w 18.6cm

Object Type: Paper Negative-Camera

Physical description: retouched

Inscription: in pencil, 519

Provenance:
Matilda Talbot 1934

Owner: National Science and Media Museum

Object owner number: 1937-4577

Collection: Science Museum Collection

This object is part of Schaaf no. 3003

20. Cathedral Messina, Sicily, 2nd series

Location: Sicily

Keywords: Italy Architecture Panorama

This image, together with Schaaf number 2998, forms one half of a panorama.

A horse and carriage, and passers-by are rendered transparent because they did not stay still during the long photographic exposure.

This view of the cathedral looks east from the Piazza Duomo and shows the bell tower of the west front of the cathedral church of S. Maria Assunta. The bell tower was taken down in 1863 as it had become unsafe.

The panorama photographs of Calvert Richard Jones feature in a Talbot project post