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[Palazzo Caffarelli]
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
- 1860s
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- Scottish
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- d4486965-6bf2-418a-8fc6-853ce1bc33dc
The statues of Castor and Pollux, each standing beside horses in front of the stairs leading to the Palazzo Caffarelli. In the background is the left most building at Caffarelli the Palazzo Nuovo.
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