Earliest Photographs of Italy

Porto di Ripetta, Rome, by Fratelli Alessandri, circa 1850--There was no record of this port aside from this photo. It was demolished in the 1880s.

Ponte Rotto, Rome by Joseph Philibert Girault de Prangey, 1842

Temple of Vesta by Pietro Dovizielli, 1855

Mecenas’s Villa and the Valley of the Anio and cascades, by Robert Macpherson, circa 1858

Duomo di Milano by Calvert Richard Jones, 1846

Panteon, Rome, by Fratelli Alessandri, circa 1850

Pompey’s Lane, Pompeii, by Eugène Le Dien, 1853

Casa di Rienzi, Rome, photographer unknown, 1855

Piazza Navona, by Fratelli Alessandri, circa 1868

Arch of Titus, Rome, by Giacomo Brogi circa 1870

Spanish Steps, Rome, by Robert MacPherson, circa 1850

Tomb of Caecilia Metella, Via Appia, Rome, 1841 Daguerreotype--one of the oldest known photos of Italy.