Pompei Tombe - Italy – Historic Print
![Pompei Tombe - Italy, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e6/e6e07b85c07f-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Pompei Tombe - Italy
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The subject is the row of tombs along the road outside Pompeii's gates, the funerary district Romans built beyond the city walls, where burial within the town was not allowed. The print was made by Sommer, a German-born photographer based in Naples, whose studio sold many views of the excavated town to nineteenth-century travelers. Visitors leaving the city would have passed these monuments, which were designed to keep the names and images of the dead in public view. The caption card records no date and its data is unverified, but the picture reflects the wide interest in Pompeii that drew photographers there once excavations were well under way.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by Sommer, Naples. No. 1230. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geog.; Death; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,226 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157981 |
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