946 - STENGEL & CO. (19th), Piazza Niccolò Tommaseo, Trieste, 1897, albumen paper print

STENGEL & CO. (19th), Piazza Niccolò Tommaseo, Trieste, 1897, albumen paper print Stengel & Co. (19th century): Piazza Niccolo Tommaseo mit Kirche San Nicolò und Palazzo Carciotti am Hafen von Triest, 1897, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print, mounted on Cardboard Stamp: Lower right Blank stamp, Stengel & Co . Dresden. 19th century Inscription: At the lower part inscribed on the support: "- Trieste - Palais Carciotti - ". Date: 1897 Description: Original photograph with high sharpness of detail. An early testimony of travel photography. Around the middle of the 19th century, more and more tourists from middle-class circles travelled to Italy. At that time, photographs could only be taken with a great deal of time and expensive, unwieldy equipment. This made many tourists all the more grateful for the work of the professional photographer's studios on site to bring back a souvenir from afar for those who stayed at home or to collect as souvenirs. Famous photographers such as Carlo Naya, Giorgio Sommer or the Alinari brothers photographed the most famous sights of their home cities and went on journeys themselves to photograph the most popular destinations of their clients and offer them as albumen prints. Ancient art treasures were also photographed and offered to travellers. The high-quality photographs of sculptures and frescoes continued to make an important contribution to documenting art treasures and making them accessible to scholars from all over Europe, who previously had to rely on tracings or engravings if they could not view the original for themselves. Keywords: Travel photography; Souvenir; Veduta; View; Architectural photography; Italy; Harbour; Boats; Sailboat; Promenade; Church; Carriage, 19th century, Historicism, Architecture, Italy, Size: Cardboard: 27,0 cm x 34,0 cm (10,6 x 13,4 in), Depiction: 22,4 cm x 28,5 cm (8,8 x 11,2 in) Condition: Defective condition. Photograph and backing clearly wavy. Single punctures from drawing pins or similar can be seen in the corners of the sheet. Bumped in places along the edges. Several short marginal tears along the right edge of the sheet. The corners of the sheet are minimally bumped. Photography relatively blurred.