Le Temple de Vesta à Tivoli

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Le Temple de Vesta à Tivoli

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British Photographer · 1813–1877

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James Anderson was born Isaac Atkinson in Blencarn, Cumberland, England and studied painting in Paris as William Nugent Dunbar. In 1838 he moved to Rome and began to produce sculpture as James Anderson, which remained his professional name. Eleven years later he took up photography, opening a studio in Rome in 1853. Anderson specialized in reproductions of works of art, publishing frequent catalog

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Date: 1859
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

View of the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli from across a ravine over the Aniene River. The temple sits perched on the edge of a rocky cliff with sheets and clothing from a recent washing draped over the railings that surround the ruins. A man stands at the edge behind the sheets looking out over the ravine.

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