Album Roma Giorgio Sommer ((1834-1914), Circa 1870

Full Italian-style folio photo album in red buckram, gilded title. Bringing together 24 albumen prints in business card format Album format 15 x 11.5 cm and card format 6.5 x 11.5 cm Roman monuments: Coliseo, Chiesa St Pietro, Castello St Angelo, Piazza del Popolo, Scala della piazza di Spagna, Fontana di Trevi, Piazza Navonna, Fonatne di Monte Cavallo, Panteon, Campidoglio, Forum romanum..... Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914) is an Italian photographer of German origin. A great traveler, he took numerous photographs for albums, catalogs and postcards. He worked in Rome then opened studios in Naples. He photographs Pompeii but also the streets and architecture of Naples as well as scenes of daily life (often reproduced in the studio). Associated with German photographer Edmund Behles, they became the most prolific photographers of this period. Sommer is appointed official photographer to King Vittorio Emanuele II of Italy.
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