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[Cloaca Maxima]

Robert Macpherson

Date: 1860s
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: Scottish
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

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Creator

Robert Macpherson

Photographer · 1811–1872

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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

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