Titre

Le forum de Pompéi et le Vesuve

Datation

1897

Datation min.

1897

Datation max.

1897

Commentaire datation

Date du dépôt légal

Auteur du cliché

Le forum de Pompéi et le Vesuve

Mention d’édition

Underwood & Underwood, Publishers.

Editeur

Underwood & Underwood ,

Numéro dans la série

56

Laboratoire photographique

Pompéi

Légende sur document

The forum of Pompeii and Vesuvius, Italy.

Commentaire légende

Imprimée sous l'image

Localisation

Lieu

Pompéi

Architecture

Arche , Colonne , Forum , Temple

Milieu - Environnement

Vésuve , Ville

Texte au recto

A gauche : Underwood & Underwood, Publishers. New York, London, Toronto-Canada, Ottawa-Kansas. Sous l'image : (56) The forum of Pompeii and Vesuvius, Italy. Copyright 1897 by Underwood & Underwood. A droite : Works and Studios Washington D.C. Arlington Littleton NJ. Littleton [...]

Verso inscrit

oui

Texte au verso

We have come down fifteen miles from Naples, by the road which skirts the beautiful bay. Now we are standing in the western part of th excavated city of Pompeii, looking across to where Vesuvius sends up that sinister breath of smoke into the northern sky. Naples is at our north too, but also a little to the west, beyond the left-hand limits of our present vision. The shore of the Bay of Naples is only a mile away at our left. Nineteen hundred years ago, this bare and desolate oblong space was the heart of a busy, prosperous city. That building at the farther (N)end was a stately temple to Jupiter, and over behind was the shop of a wine-merchand ; his sculptured provision shop. Nearer to us, on the right, is the hall of the old-time wool-sellers. Here at this S. end were the city council halls, court-rooms and voting-rooms. In the palmy days of Pompeii this Forum was as full of life and animation as th Forum of Rome herself. Cicero had a country-house near here and without any doubt at all, he must have many times passed through this very square while by-standers discussed his latest oration and mothers said to their small boys : "Look well ; there goes the great Cicero !" In the year A.D. 79 a horrible eruption from the crater of Vesuvius yonder six miles away, suddenly and utterly overwhelmed the city, burying it more than fifteen feet deep under drifts of fiery ashes, stones and cinders. For a few years afterwards occasional efforts were made to excavate parts of the ruined city, but after a time its tale of terror was forgotten. The very fact of its existence here died out of men's memories. In 1748 a peasant accidentally discovered statuary lying embedded in the soil ; investigation led to research and now a large part of the buried town has been brought to light as we see it, after nearly 1900 years' oblivion. See : ---- Bulwer Lytton : Last days of Pompeii =============================================================== Forum of Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Forum de Pompéi et Mont Vésuve, Italie. Forum zu Pompei und der Vesuv, Italien. Foro de Pompeya y Monte Vesuvio, Italia. Forum af Pompej och berget Vesuvius, Italien. [...]

Etat de conservation

moyen

Support

Photographies collées sur carton

Propriétaire

M. Magendie

Lieu de conservation

Lescar

Auteur de la numérisation

Philippe Chalons

Créateur du dépôt

CLEM

Date de dépôt

Juillet 2015

Lot

LOT24_MAGENDIE

Livraison

LIVRAISON_07

Nom usuel

MAG3942

Titre

Le forum de Pompéi et le Vesuve

Date de création

1897

Légende

The forum of Pompeii and Vesuvius, Italy.

Ville

Pompéi

Région

Campanie

Pays

Italie

Fournisseur

CLEM - Archéovision

Auteur de la description

Fanny Arnaud