Paper Travellers

The Gabinetto della Grafica of the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana preserves an album with views of Rome and Naples and reproductions of sculpture. From these, we make new attributions of the authorship of photographs, completing the catalogue of the work of such important authors as James Anderson, Michael Mang, Tommaso Cuccioni, Robert Rive, Giorgio Sommer and Giuseppe Ninci. We also reflect on the commercial dynamics of photographic firms in the nineteenth century and their important role in the consolidation of models and methodologies that served, from then on, for the construction of histories of architecture and art.