A Grand Tour

A departure from our usual paintings and drawings, this week we have been cataloguing a fascinating group of albumen prints c.1870s: a window into the world that so many of our artist-travellers inhabited.

Rome—possibly the work of Scottish photographer in Rome, Robert Macpherson (1814–1872)?

Florence

Switzerland

the Siege of Strasbourg...

Real people within the scenes surprise and delight—and perhaps even more arresting is the absence of people at these sites of now-mass tourism.