Pompeii
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Pompeii
From the album "Selections from Seventeen-Hundred Genuine Photographs Taken Around The Shores Of The Mediterranean Between The Years 1846-52. With, Or Without, Notes, Historical, And Descriptive. By a Wayworn Wanderer."
ca. 1852
Salted paper print
15.2 x 20.4 cm.
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Inscriptions caption sheet-(printed) "Pompeii," "Founded nobody knows when - no one
knows by whom, - is mentioned in history no earlier than about 450
years B.C. and then chiefly for its troublesome insubordation to
Impreial Rome: till chastisement ensued, and was stayed only by the
earthquake and the eruption of Vesuvius, which commenced its
destruction in the year 63 - and finally overwhelmed it sixteen years
afterwards.
During 1676 years the city remained lightly buried beneath black ..."
knows by whom, - is mentioned in history no earlier than about 450
years B.C. and then chiefly for its troublesome insubordation to
Impreial Rome: till chastisement ensued, and was stayed only by the
earthquake and the eruption of Vesuvius, which commenced its
destruction in the year 63 - and finally overwhelmed it sixteen years
afterwards.
During 1676 years the city remained lightly buried beneath black ..."
