Vintage albumen print
 under a 40x50 cm passe-partout
 This "Venus rising from the waters" is a Roman marble sculpture housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
 Giacomo Brogi was an Italian photographer born in Florence, Tuscany in 1822 and died in 1881.
 He began his photography career in 1856. He opened his first studio in Rome in 1864, then in Florence and Naples.