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[The Palatine, Rome]
Creator
Robert MacphersonPhotographer · 1811–1872
All works by this person →Until photography lured him in 1851, Robert Macpherson enjoyed a socially active career as a painter, journalist, and art dealer. A tall, gregarious redhead described as "gifted with that rare endowment, the art of pleasing," the Scottish Macpherson cut a striking figure wearing a kilt on the streets of Rome, where he had moved for his health around 1840. He became a commercial photographer and op
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- 1850s
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- Scottish
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0613b508-2581-43c8-a9b2-1025b40b1aff
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Ruins of ancient structures with a view of a fortified city in the distance.
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