[Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica, Rome]
Photograph
Unidentified
Maker
[Castel Sant'Angelo and St. Peter's Basilica, Rome]
1839–1843
Daguerreotype
Image (whole plate): 6 1/8 × 8 1/16 in. (15.5 × 20.5 cm)
Overall (housing): 6 9/16 × 8 1/2 × 1/4 in. (16.7 × 21.6 × 0.6 cm)
Purchase
1976.0168.0153
Inscriptions On applied label on plate verso: The first photograph ever taken [i.e. of this view of Rome]
