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Italy -- Description and travel

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:

Album Collection

 Sub-Series

Album Collection

Reference number: ES-PH/07
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises 17 albums of photographs, prints, and postcards, broadly arranged by place and/or by subject matter. It includes: glass and glasswork; Egypt, Greece and Libya by British-Italian photographer Antonio Beato; Italian Medieval and Renaissance architecture and art, including sculpture, painting and mosaics; Italian photographs; Italy and France; the UK (specifically the Ince Blundell Collection of classical and ancient sculpture) and more.

Dates: 1870 - 1943

Architecture and landscape, Italy and Europe

 Sub-Series

Architecture and landscape, Italy and Europe

Reference number: ES-PH/03
Scope and Contents This sub-series comprises 14 boxes of photographs and prints depicting or relating to regions in Italy and across Europe (including France, Turkey, Croatia and Libya). The images primarily depict architecture and specific architectural features, landscapes, built heritage, and art (especially in the boxes relating to Puglia). Boxes ES-PH/03/01 - ES-PH/03/05 depict architecture and landscape across Italy and Europe; boxes ES-PH/03/06 - ES-PH/03/10 depict specific regions of Italy; box...
Dates: 1870 - 1943

Dora and Agnes Bulwer Collection

 Collection

Dora and Agnes Bulwer Collection

Reference number: PA-DAB
Abstract

Collection of photographs and negatives belonging to Agnes (1856-1940) and Dora (1864-1948) Bulwer, amateur photographers, donors and supporters of the BSR.

Dates: 1890 - 1930?

James Graham Calotype Collection

 Collection

James Graham Calotype Collection

Reference number: PA-JG
Abstract

Set of 62 calotypes depicting the Bay of Naples, Capri Island and the Amalfi Coast taken by Reverend James Graham (1806-1869), Scottish missionary and photographer. Also 3 salted paper prints by the same author, depicting Paestum, are part of the collection.

Dates: 1858 - 1864

Malta -- Art and architecture in Roman provinces -- Catalogues and art collections

 Sub-Series

Malta -- Art and architecture in Roman provinces -- Catalogues and art collections

Reference number: ES-PH/06
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises three boxes of photographs and photographic prints, relating to archaeological sites and landscapes in Malta (ES-PH/06/01), Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, sculpture, architectural elements, and decorations from ancient Roman provinces in Italy, Syria, Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Germany (ES-PH/06/02).

Dates: 1870 - 1943

Papers, 1846 - 1990

 Series

Papers, 1846 - 1990

Reference number: ES-PP
Scope and Contents This series comprises Eugénie Sellers Strong's personal papers, including her correspondence, records relating to the administration and the Library of the BSR, catalogues of private collections and libraries (by ES and others), records relating to ES's time as Librarian to the Dukes of Devonshire (1904-1909), working papers, lectures, research notes, publications, works-in-progress, and a number of unpublished works and translations by ES. The correspondence in this series is...
Dates: 1846 - 1990

Photograph Collection, 1870 - 1943

 Series

Photograph Collection, 1870 - 1943

Reference number: ES-PH
Scope and Contents This series comprises Strong's personal collections of photographic and related visual materials, spanning 13 sub-series. It covers a vast range of subjects, artistic schools and styles, artistic / architectural / archaeological paradigms, and geographical locations. The material contained herein includes: images for publications, including Paul Arndt and Walther Amelung's 'Photographische Einzelaufnahmen Antiker Sculpturen' (1893); Roman and Greek sculpture and statuary; artworks;...
Dates: 1870 - 1943

Roman and Greek Sculpture (General)

 Sub-Series

Roman and Greek Sculpture (General)

Reference number: ES-PH/09
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises five boxes of photographs and prints depicting or otherwise relating to Roman and Greek sculpture in general. The exact contents of these boxes are not yet listed.

Dates: 1870 - 1943

Roman and Greek Sculpture (Museum and private collections)

 Sub-Series

Roman and Greek Sculpture (Museum and private collections)

Reference number: ES-PH/10
Scope and Contents

This sub-series comprises five boxes of photographs and prints depicting or otherwise relating to Roman and Greek sculpture held in museum and private collections. The exact contents of these boxes are not yet listed.

Dates: 1870 - 1943

Thomas Ashby Notes and Notebooks

 Sub-Fonds

Thomas Ashby Notes and Notebooks

Reference number: TA-MSSNBS
Abstract

Thomas Ashby's manuscript and typewritten notes and notebooks on archaeological and topographical subjects. Notes on various manuscipt collections are also present, including Asnby's research on the dal Pozzo-Albani drawing collection at Windsor Castle.

Dates: 1890 - 1931