Alphonse Bernoud / Claude Grillet
1857-1858
Rocks, Rio Agri…

Albumen print
The Royal Society
Product code: RS-8800
 
View of an Italian river course and stone bridge with a landscape of hills and occasional buildings. The river is noted in Mallet's Report of the 1857 Neapolitan Earthquake as demonstrating "prodigious river erosion". Inscribed verso in pencil "Rocks, Rio Agri ? Sarconi et Montemuro" and numbered "35". Collected by Robert Mallet.
 
NOTE: In the Royal Society catalogue this print is listed as by "Alphonse Bernoud Grellier" this is an error. There were two notable photographers of the 1857 earthquake in Campania and Basilicata "Alphonse Benoud" and "Claude Grillet", who was a French photographer with a studio in Naples. The book Giovanni Fanelli, 2011, Alphonse Bernoud (1820-1889). Firenze, Napoli, Livorno, (Paris: Private edition) clarifies this issue. (pers. email, Giovanni Fanelli to Alan Griffiths, 24 March 2015)
 
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