ITALY - NAPLES - COSTUMES - GIORGIO SOMMER 1834-1914 - Lot 219

ITALY - NAPLES - COSTUMES - GIORGIO SOMMER 1834-1914 Napoli" album featuring portraits, Neapolitan genre scenes and landscapes, ca.1875-1892. Photographs. Album comprising 76 albumen prints, 19 of which enhanced with watercolors. Woman and man dancing tarantella, funeral procession of the Congregation of St. Francis, public writer, Neapolitan santon ensemble, spaghetti eaters, portrait of man in bonnet smoking pipe in street, women hanging laundry, horses pulling cobblestone cart and coachman, street vendors; Capri: goat-breeding family, frescoes in the Hotel Pagano, women carrying baskets and barrels of wine; women in traditional costumes, Italians seining, children in a Sicilian cart, shoeshine boys, troubadour, bagpipe players, eruption of Vesuvius in September 1888, travelers on the volcano crater in 1892, on the Luglio crater in 1880, funicular railway, boats and ships, monks in the cloister of the San Martino church, Palazzo Reale, men and children posing on a marina pontoon, linen in the windows, via Roma and Medina bustling with life, piazza del Plebiscito, Santa Lucia, grand hotel, Posipilo, Pozzuoli : temple of Serapis; Baja: temple of Venus, Capri: marina, women in an alley, monte Solaro, Barbarossa castle, man and boy in front of Sorrento panorama, Castellammare, Positano, Amalfi, Salerno, Pesto: temple of Neptune. Images: approx. 19.7 x 25.3 cm; album: 29.5 x 37.8 cm