Colonna Traiana
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Colonna Traiana
From the album Rome to Pompeii
ca. 1880
Albumen silver print
Image: 10 1/4 × 8 in. (26 × 20.3 cm)
Mount: 10 11/16 × 13 7/8 in. (27.2 × 35.3 cm)
Gift of Mrs. Phil Porter
Inscriptions Printed in image and traced over in black in, BL: COLONNA TRAIANA
Inscribed in black ink on mount, L and R: B. 236 Trajan's Column constructed entirely of marble. The shaft is 87 ft. high \ The whole including pedestal and statue 147 ft. diameter 11 ft below 10 ft. at \ top. Around the column runs a spiral band 3 ft wide + 660 ft long covered \ with admirable reliefs from Trajan's War comprising besides animals machines \ etc. upwards of 2500 human figures the hight [sic] of those below being 2 ft. and \ gradually increasing as they ascend. Beneath this monument Trajan was \ interred and on the summit stood his statue now replaced by that \ of St. Peter.
Inscribed in black ink on mount, L and R: B. 236 Trajan's Column constructed entirely of marble. The shaft is 87 ft. high \ The whole including pedestal and statue 147 ft. diameter 11 ft below 10 ft. at \ top. Around the column runs a spiral band 3 ft wide + 660 ft long covered \ with admirable reliefs from Trajan's War comprising besides animals machines \ etc. upwards of 2500 human figures the hight [sic] of those below being 2 ft. and \ gradually increasing as they ascend. Beneath this monument Trajan was \ interred and on the summit stood his statue now replaced by that \ of St. Peter.
