'The Ring and Book.' Florence. Mercato Vecchio. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the old market square, with the dome of the Duomo visible in the background: 'Taken from the corner of the Via Strozzi, looking towards the Duomo … The Mercato and the neighbouring streets are now all pulled down.'
Florence. View over the Mercato Vecchio. Photographer: Unknown
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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.' ...
'Pippa passes.' Venezia. Chiesa di S. Maria de' Frari. La Navata minore col Monumento a Canova. Photographer: Alinari Fratelli
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View looking along the small nave in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, with a side view of the Canova memorial in the foreground.
'The Ring and the Book.' Castelnuovo. Photographer: Griffin, William Hall
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Genre: Landscape Photography General view looking towards the town, with the palace in the centre where, in Browning's poem, Caponsacchi and Pompilia were imprisoned after their capture at the inn on the high road (see following prints).
'The Ring and the Book.' Trinity Bridge, Florence. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View from the south side of the river looking eastwards along the Arno towards the Ponte a Santa Trinita, with the Ponte Vecchio visible in the background.
'The Ring and the Book.' Florence. Riccardi Palace. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along the Via Larga, with the Riccardi Palace (Palazzo Medici) in the foreground. With extensive notes in Hall Griffin's hand, recording the building's associations with Browning's poems.
'The Ring and the Book.' Arezzo. Cathedral. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Cathedral: 'View taken from the corner of the little park on the hill top, just opposite Petrarch's house ... At the end of the steps [on the left] is seen the white marble monument of Ferdinand ... Behind that rises the Archbishop's palace.....