Coliseum
1862 · Albumen print
Image/paper: 30.2 × 41.1 cm (11 15/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Mount: 49 × 64 cm (19 5/16 × 25 1/4 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Robert Macpherson
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PhotographyPhotographyRenaissance
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46
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60
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Before Photography: Painting and the Invention of Photography
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Photography as Printmaking
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968
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Robert Macpherson was a British photographer and antiquarian active in mid-19th-century Rome, where he documented classical sites and Renaissance architecture with large-format paper negatives. Working primarily in albumen print, he produced systematic photographic surveys of Italian cultural patrimony that established him as a pioneering figure in archaeological photography. His archive remains a significant record of Roman monuments and artworks as they existed in the 1850s and 1860s.
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