Giotto's Campanile, Florence, Glass Plate c.1890

Giotto's Campanile, Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence Cathedral, Italy.

Format 10 x 8.5cm with stand The Arlesian Suitcase

Initially used with the magic lantern for entertainment, the photographic plate established itself in the last quarter of the 19th century as a tool particularly suited to the production and dissemination of knowledge, but also aesthetically as a tourist object, a witness to great journeys or important events.