| Giacomo Caneva Young Girl Spinning, Rome 1850 (ca) Salt print, from paper negative 19,8 x 15 cm Bassenge Photography Auctions Courtesy of Bassenge, Berlin (Photography, Sale: 90, Lot: 4033, Dec 5, 2007) LL/25213 This is part of a genre series Caneva made in the early 1850s and which was very popular with well-to-do tourists in Rome.
Lit.: Italien. Sehen und Sterben Photographien der Zeit des Risorgimento. Heidelberg 1994, ill. pp. 184-185 (similar images from the same series).
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