[Villa Medici]

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[Villa Medici]

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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Date
1860s
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
Scottish
Department
Photographs
Institution
Getty Museum
Object ID
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The villa Medici in Rome viewed on the side of the garden facade. In the foreground is a courtyard with a fountain bordered by hedges.

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