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 22.0cm x w 16.7cm

Paper size: h 22.5cm x w 18.5cm

Object Type: Salted Paper Print

Mount: removed from a mount

Physical description: pale; glue residue in each corner, together with holes, when removed from its mount

Inscription: in pencil, verso,in Dudley Johnston's hand, Cathedral Messina; RPS ink stamp, verso

Provenance:
025318 / old RPS 53

Owner: Victoria and Albert Museum

Object owner number: RPS.320-2017

Collection: Royal Photographic Society Collection

Supporting images

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