Cloisters of St. Paul's, the Basilica, Outside the Walls of Rome
by 1858
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 34.8 x 25.8 cm (13 11/16 x 10 3/16 in.) Mount (2nd): 52 x 36.8 cm (20 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joyce F. Menschel Gift, 2008
Accession Number
2008.528
Tags
About the Artist
Robert Macpherson · 1811–1872
Robert Macpherson (1811–1872) was a Scottish artist who began his career in medicine before pivoting to painting and ultimately pioneering photography in Rome. Born in the Tayside region near Edinburgh, he enrolled at the University of Edinburgh in 1831 to study medicine but left without graduating after four years. He then trained at the Royal Scottish Academy, where he exhibited portraits from 1...