Heading: (Pompei)
Author:
Title: Pompeian Frescoes and Mosaics. A collection of 37 original photographs mounted on commercial cabinet cards
Place Published: Naples
Publisher:Grillet & Co.
Date Published: [c.1860]
Description:

Set of 37 of 41 cards, lacking Nos. 14, 30. 37, and 39. Each photograph hand-colored, many very elaborately and in great detail. Photographs approx. 16.5x11 cm (6½x4¼"), housed in a period red cloth-covered clamshell box with marbled-paper interior.

A handsome visual souvenir of Pompeii from the nineteenth century.

In discussing where the British tourist could best procure "views of Naples, Pompeii, Vesuvius, &c. and of statues in the museum," guidebook writer John Murray pointed the interested traveler to "Grillet's, No 6 Chiatamone, whose carte de visite portraits, one fr each, especially of ladies, executed under the direction of Miss Lejeune, a talented English artist, are perhaps unrivaled as are Grillet's photographic views on glass for the stereoscope of the monuments about Naples and Rome, including the works of art in the museums of the Vatican and Capitol and views of Switzerland" (A Handbook for Travellers in Southern Italy, Sixth ed. 1868, p.86).

Some wear, rubbing and soiling to outer box; photographs slightly bowed, with light wear and rubbing to extremities; colors bright; very good.