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19th Century Archaeology
This online exhibition shows a range of the application of photography to archaeology.
- Archaeology sites - ancient world (e.g Dr. Cabot’s work with Stephens & Catherwood, Captain Charles Wilson and the Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem, Francis Frith, John Beasley Greene, Maxime Du Camp, Désiré Charnay, Calvert Richard Jones, Charles Piazzi Smyth, John Thomson, Félix Teynard, Linneaus Tripe and the host of photographers in India, and those who recorded sites for Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours and his Excursions daguerriennes : vues et monuments les plus remarquables du globe (1841-1842).
- Archaeological finds - studies of implements, pottery, museum layouts etc. (Roger Fenton at the British Museum, Giorgio Sommer at the museum in Napoli, Délié & Béchard at the Musée Boulaq which is now the Cairo Museum)
- Archaeological record - views of now destroyed or lost monuments and artefacts (e.g. the sequence by Daguerreotypist Thomas Easterly on the St. Louis mounds)
- Archaeological excavations - significant views of sections, work in progress (e.g. Dr Augustus and Alice Le Plongeon, Auguste Salzmann, and the photograph of the St Acheul section that forever changed the world by giving us a past.)
I am short on the last of these particularly 19th century photographs of archaeological sections or sectional drawings that were definitely made from photographs. If anybody has scans of the title page and some examples from General Pitt-Rivers photographs taken at the Cranborne Chase excavations I'd be interested. I'm still seeking early magnesium light photographs of cave excavations and catacombs and aerial views taken from balloons of archaeological sites.
Key 19th century source documents can also be included and suggestions are always welcome.
alan@luminous-lint.com.
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