Robert Macpherson
Palace of the Caesars on the Palatine Hill

CultureScottish
Titles
  • Palace of the Caesars on the Palatine Hill
Datec. 1855
Place depictedRome, Italy
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 12 1/16 × 15 5/8 in. (30.6 × 39.7 cm)
Mount: 19 1/4 × 25 1/4 in. (48.9 × 64.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment Fund, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.580
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2004.
Exhibition History"The Grand Tour: Rome, from the Heiting Collection", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, lower Brown Gallery of Law Building, October 3, 2005 thru January 18, 2006
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in ink, recto, lower right corner: "H.G. Brooke"; lower center: "Palace of the Caesars"
Blind stamp, centered below image: "R. Macpherson / 110 / Roma"
Marked in pencil, recto, lower right corner: "RP"

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