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81. Add MS 74788-74791

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Title:
HALL GRIFFIN PHOTOGRAPHS: photographs of views, buildings, interiors, works of art and monuments, with accompanying contextualising commentary and quotations illustrating the work and life of Robert Browning, assembled by William Hall Griffin (d.1907) for his Life of Robert Browning (1910), photographs either taken or collected by Hall Griffin; circa 1900-1907. Supplementing the ‘Hall Griffin Papers’, Add. 45558-45564. Transferred from the British Museum Department of Prints and Drawings, Ma...
Scope & Content:
Florence, Italy: Annotated photographs of buildings and works of art in Florence: circa 1900. Art. Photographs: Italy General: Photographs of and notes on Italy: circa 1900. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet: Robert Browning, poet: William Hall Griffin, writer: Biographical notes and photograph...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1900-1907
Extent:
4 items

82. Add MS 74789

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HALL GRIFFIN PHOTOGRAPHS. Vol. II (ff. 62). 1. ff. 1-21. Photographs and notes of and relating to Florence, Rome, Fiesole and Perugia. Additional quotations from The Statue and the Bust, Fra Lippo Lippi and Casa Guidi Windows. B.M. numbering: 1937-12-23-3 (25-44). 2. ff. 22-62. Photographs an...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
c 1900-1907
Extent:
1 item

83. Add MS 74789(2)

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'The Ring and the Book,' 'Fra Lippo Lippi,' etc. Florence. Riccardi Palace and via Maria. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the façade of the Riccardi Palace (Palazzo Medici): '…The very short Via Gori is seen further up on the right, where Browning bought the square old yellow book.'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

84. Add MS 74789(3)

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Title:
'The Ring and the Book.' Florence. Piazza of S. Lorenzo. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View taken from the back of the Riccardi Palace (Palazzo Medici) looking towards the Church of San Lorenzo, with the domes of the Medici Chapel and the Sagrestia Nuova (New Sacristy) beyond.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

85. Add MS 74789(4)

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'The Ring and the Book.' Florence. The Certosa. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across olive groves towards the monastery of Certosa di Val d'Ema, a few miles south of Florence, with the Duomo (retouched in this print) visible in the left background.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

86. Add MS 74789(5)

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The Ring and the Book.' Florence (Pitti Palace). The 'Age of Gold,' by Ciro derri or Pietro da Cortona (Pitti Palace). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Photographic copy of the painting.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

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'The Ring and the Book.' Florence (Certosa). Tomb of Niccolo Acciajuoli in the Certosa di Val d'Ema. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Close view of the tomb, with a sculpture of the deceased (the founder of the Certosa) reclining beneath an arcaded structure. See print 4 for a view of the monastery in which the tomb is situated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

88. Add MS 74789(7)

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'The Ring and the Book.' Florence (Uffizi). The Rape of Europa by Francesco Albano. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Inscription: Signed in the negative, 'R. I.' (or 'I. R.'). Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Photographic copy of the painting.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

89. Add MS 74789(8)

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Title:
Florence. View over the Mercato Vecchio. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street towards the square of the Mercato Vecchio: 'This is no longer existent: a brand new piazza has taken its place. Browning passed through here on his way to Casa Guidi [his lodgings] after purchasing his 'square old yellow book.' ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

90. Add MS 74789(9)

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Title:
'The Ring and the Book.' Florence. Ceiling of the 'Sala di Giove,' Pitti Palace, by Pietro da Cortona and Ciro Ferri. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking directly upwards towards the painted ceiling in the Pitti Palace.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item