A. de Bonis

19 tirages albuminés individuellement montés sur papier d'époque. 17 tirages avec le tampon aux initiales du photographe 'AdB' et titrés au crayon au verso par l'artiste.

Françoise Heilbrun, Bernard Marbot, L'Invention d'un Regard (1839 - 1918), cat. expo., Paris, Musée d'Orsay, 1989, div. ill.;
Ken et Jenny Jacobson, Etude d'après nature. 19th Century Photographs in Relation to Art, Petches Bridge, 1996, ill. p. 172;
Bruce Lundberg, John A. Pinto (éd.), Steps on the Beaten Path. Nineteen Century Photographs of Rome and its environs, Milan - New York, 2007, avec ill.

All nineteen albumen prints in good to very good general condition. Three prints with small loss of paper in the lower right corner, at the lower edge and in the upper left corner. One print with a small loss of the albumen layer in the lower right corner.
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1)     Sant’ Onofrio
2)     Porta laterale di Ara Coeli
3)     Scala davanti Sant’ Isidoro
4)     Ingresso al piazzale di San Cosimato in Trastevere
5)     Veduta di parte di un corridor del Coloffeo
6)     Ripa grande e marmorata vitti tra la Bocca della Verita e la Salara
7)     La famiglia di Niobe [faettata ?] da Apollo e Diana al Vaticans nel corridore de’ Candelabri
8)     Ingresso al convente di San Cosimato in Trastevere
9)     Portico di Santa Sabina all’aventino
10)   Chiostro di San Giovanni in Laterano visto dall’ ingresso che conduce alla navata destro
11)   Prothyrum o portico esterna di San Clemente
12)   Sans titre
13)   Sans titre
14)   Portico dell’ Accademia di Francia
15)   Portico di Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
16)   Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore vista di sotto il portico della Chiesa
17)   San Giorgio in Velabro
18)   Fontana in piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere
19)   Veduta preta dal vesti-bulo di San Pietro guardando la Sagrestia