id: 154074 accession number: 1988.190 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.190 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:02.882000 Temple of Clitumnus, c. 1857. Robert Macpherson (British, 1811–1872). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 35.8 x 25.9 cm (14 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.); matted: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1988.190 title: Temple of Clitumnus title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1857 creation date earliest: 1852 creation date latest: 1862 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Robert Macpherson (British, 1811–1872) - artist Robert Macpherson British, b. Scotland, 1811-1872 His many views of Rome and its environs, produced in the 1850s-60s, place Robert Macpherson among the most prolific and popular of 19th-century photographers of Italy (along with James Anderson in Rome, the Alinari family in Florence, and Carlo Ponti of Venice). Trained as a surgeon in his native Edinburgh, Macpherson moved to Rome in about 1840, becoming a painter, photographer, and occasional dealer in art and antiquities. By the early 1850s he was an acknowledged master of scenic and architectural views, publishing a catalog of his work in 1858. In 1859 he had some 187 views available for purchase, and by 1863 the number had increased to 305. In that same year he made more than 300 photographs of sculpture in the Vatican for a guidebook on the subject. Macpherson maintained his ties to Britain, assisting in the founding of the Scottish Photographic Society. An extensive 1862 London exhibition of some 400 of his works was highly praised. Macpherson's images are found in many collections. Through his acuity as a dealer, in 1868 London's National Gallery purchased Michelangelo's important painting The Entombment. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 35.8 x 25.9 cm (14 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 55.9 cm (28 x 22 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "137"; in pencil on verso of mount: "A18"; "Temple of Clitumnus" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, March 17 - May 14, 1989: "Photographs: Recent Acquisitions," Gallery D.', 'opening_date': '1989-03-17T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 227 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.190/1988.190_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.190/1988.190_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1988.190/1988.190_full.tif