Subject: Volcanoes - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(191)
Title:: [Marina with Vesuvius in background, Naples.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: '28'. Genre: Landscape Photography View taken at a slightly elevated vantage point at the water's edge, looking along the beach to a town with Mount Vesuvius behind. Trimmed negative with chemical spots in the top left corner.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Spring 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(192)
Title:: [Pompeii with Mount Vesuvius behind.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on verso: '141'. Genre: Landscape Photography View taken from a slightly elevated position, looking across the ruins of Pompeii; there are some columns in the foreground and Mount Vesuvius dominates the skyline. Trimmed negative.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Spring 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(316)
Title:: [View of Mount Etna, Sicily.] Photographer: Bridges, George Wilson
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Taken from a slightly elevated position, the view looks down on a forested area behind a stone wall with Mount Etna in the distance. Trimmed negative that has been folded into quarters.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(317)
Title:: Etna. Convent of St. Nicolo. Photographer: Bridges, George Wilson
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed on verso: '54. Etna. Convent of St. Nicolo' [and Bridges' signature]. Genre: Landscape Photography View of the single-storey building in the mid-distance with a tall tree behind and Mount Etna to one side. Trimmed negative. The sky has been opaqued by hand.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 1(326)
Title:: Taormina, Sicily. Photographer: Bridges, George Wilson
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Inscribed at top of negative: 'Taormina - Etna in distance 35 miles off. No 28, taken as you recovered, an hour after sunrise' [Title and Bridges' signature inscribed on verso.] Genre: Landscape Photography View taken from the mountainside overlooking Taormina with Mount Etna in t...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 2(562)
Title:: [Boats Aground, Vesuvius in the Distance.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography One of two copies (prints 562 and 563) of this subject showing a group of beached sailing boats with the volcano behind. This scene was used the following year for one of Jones' hand-coloured prints. Trimmed to size of image. Slight chemical staining on image. The n...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Spring 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 2(563)
Title:: [Boats Aground, Vesuvius in the Distance.] Photographer: Jones, Calvert Richard
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography One of two copies (prints 562 and 563) of this subject showing a group of beached sailing boats with the volcano behind. This scene was used the following year for one of Jones' hand-coloured prints. Trimmed to size of image. The negative to this print can be found ...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Spring 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 2(623)
Title:: Casa Inglese, Etna. Photographer: Bridges, George Wilson
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Bridges/ "Casa Inglese"/ Etna. Genre: Landscape Photography View of the volcano with running lava in the distance, with a stone house at left, outside of which stands a man with a donkey. In a letter to Talbot dated 25th August 1846, Bridges writes 'the Casa Inglese, & the Con...
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1846-Aug 1846
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 19(43)
Title:: [Drawing titled] Capo di Monte.
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Handwritten on album page in ink; 'Capo di Monte' and in pencil, 'D. of St Gallo'. Sepia wash panoramic view from Capo di Monte with the Bay of Naples to the right and Vesuvius bellowing smoke at the far left.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Talbot Photo 19(47)
Title:: [Pencil Drawing of] Naples.
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Handwritten on album page in ink; 'Naples'. Pencil drawing from the surrounding hillside of Naples with the city and bay to the right and Mount Vesuvius in the distance at left.
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Unspecified
Extent:: 1 item

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