Alphonse Bernoud / Claude Grillet
1857-1858
Potenza, north side

Albumen print
The Royal Society
Product code: RS-8822
 
Landscape view of the town of Potenza, Italy, with a road approach to the left of the image and hillside gently sloping to the right of the picture. Inscribed verso in pencil "Potenza north side. N to S û 26". Inscribed in pencil "Photog 302". Described in Mallet's 1862 Report, vol.2 p.56-59. 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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