'The Ring and the Book.' Rome. View on the Tiber. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography 'Taken from the same spot as the other Tiber view — the Convertile Tower being darkly visible on the right. On the left, the building in the middle portion, with the long line of roof, is the New Prisons, which front landward on Via Guilia.'
'The Ring and the Book.' Rome. Scene of the murders, Jan. 2 1698. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards a group of conical huts: 'A view in the 'Pauline' district, outside the Porta S. Paola. Taken from the Via Paolina. The houses cease — except for a few scattered dwellings — almost as soon as the city walls are passed.'
'The Ring and the Book.' Rome. 'Bocca della Verita.' Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Circular marble drain cover, five feet in diameter, standing in the portico of the Church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, 'with the head of Ocean in alto-relievo in the centre through the open mouth of which the rain water wd. escape ... The lips, it is said, will close on the hand of anyone who whi...