Souvenir de Pompei
Bound volume
Unidentified
Maker
Giorgio Sommer
Italian, b. Germany, 1834–1914
E. Figlio
Italian
Souvenir de Pompei
ca. 1870
Bound volume with albumen silver prints
Overall (closed): 7 3/8 × 9 7/16 × 1 3/16 in. (18.7 × 23.9 × 3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.1458.0001-0100
DescriptionAlbum containing 48 albumen silver prints of tourist sites and attractions around Pompeii. Captions printed in photographs identify each image. Album is bound in red cloth and contains gold debossed lettering and a black and gold debossed decorative border.
Inscriptions Debossed in gold on front cover, C: SOUVENIR \ DE \ POMPEI
Debossed in gold on spine, C: POMPEI
Inscribed in pencil inside front cover, T: Al Gab. h8 h20
Printed in applied label inside front cover, TLC: REAL STABILIMENTO FOTOGRAFICO \ G. SOMMER & FIGLIO \ LARGO VITTORIA \ PALAZZO SOMMER \ NAPOLI \ GRANDE FONDERIA ARTISTICA IN BRONZO
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) inside front cover, LC: 3/4 Way Back- Dog in Death
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of front flyleaf, RC: The finest set of \ Pompei Photos \ I have seen \ Boyer/ \ Note Photo Ad \ in Front \ B
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) inside back cover, TRC: Manuel \ Newport RI \ 2-49 \ Boyer \ IOE
Debossed in gold on spine, C: POMPEI
Inscribed in pencil inside front cover, T: Al Gab. h8 h20
Printed in applied label inside front cover, TLC: REAL STABILIMENTO FOTOGRAFICO \ G. SOMMER & FIGLIO \ LARGO VITTORIA \ PALAZZO SOMMER \ NAPOLI \ GRANDE FONDERIA ARTISTICA IN BRONZO
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) inside front cover, LC: 3/4 Way Back- Dog in Death
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) on recto of front flyleaf, RC: The finest set of \ Pompei Photos \ I have seen \ Boyer/ \ Note Photo Ad \ in Front \ B
Inscribed in pencil (in Boyer's hand) inside back cover, TRC: Manuel \ Newport RI \ 2-49 \ Boyer \ IOE
