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Palace of the Caesars on the Palatine

A work made of albumen print.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of albumen print.

Date:

1860

Artist:

Robert MacPherson
Scottish, 1811–1872

About this artwork

Robert MacPherson moved to Rome in 1840, working as a landscape painter and art dealer until he began practicing photography in 1851. A new class of tourists—beyond the coterie of aristocrats who had initially popularized the Grand Tour—had begun traveling to Italy, and MacPherson quickly opened a photography studio to sell his high-quality prints of famous sculptures and architectural sites. For this view, he aimed his camera toward the southeast from the ruins of the Palace of the Caesars on Palatine Hill in Rome. Visible to the right are the Circus Maximus and the crenellated tower of the Santa Balbina church and monastery. In 1863 MacPherson wrote, “I remain a photographer to this day, without any feeling that by doing so I have … forfeited my claim to the title of artist.”

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Robert MacPherson

Title

Palace of the Caesars on the Palatine

Place

Scotland (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1860

Medium

Albumen print

Dimensions

Image, oval: 30.7 × 39.9 cm (12 1/8 × 15 3/4 in.); Paper: 49.2 × 64.4 cm (19 3/8 × 25 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Leigh B. Block

Reference Number

1983.85

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