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Photographic collections

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List of Collections

James Graham collection (c. 1860): very rare views of Naples, Pompeii, Capri and the Amalfi coast.
62 calotypes, 98 modern photographic prints
Not yet catalogued and not available for consultation

Henry Parker collection (c.1865-1879): classical and medieval architecture and topography of Italy, in particular of Rome.
2394 vintage prints, c. 350 modern glass negatives.
Not yet catalogued but available for consultation

Peter Paul Mackey collection (1890-1910): photographs of Italy (particularly Rome and surroundings), Sardinia, Sicily and Malta.
c. 2000 photographic prints, 2000 new negatives.
Available on the URBS catalogue for consultation

Thomas Ashby collection (1890-c.1925): archaeology, topography, architecture, monuments, local festivals, costumes and landscape in Italy. Archaeological sites and his own excavations in North Africa, Greece, Malta, Wales, etc. Family annual trips to England, Australia, Ceylon, BSR events, BSR building, fellows of the School.
18 albums containing 8516 original prints; 7647 original negatives (on permanent loan to the ICCD). New negatives.
Available on the URBS catalogue for consultation

Dora and Agnes Bulwer collection (1890-c.1930?): views of Italy, France, Greece and personal travel albums.
5 albums containing 1300 original prints, 24 glass negatives, 879 nitrate negatives. New negatives.
Available on the URBS catalogue for consultation

Robert Gardner collection (1912-1913): archaeological sites, monuments and landscapes of Italy.
1595 photographic prints, 29 glass negatives, 1659 nitrate negatives, 79 lantern slides.
Not yet catalogued and not available for consultation

Eugénie Strong collection (1900-c.1930): ancient Greek and Roman sculpture and other works of art. The collection includes albums of postcards and photographic prints by famous photographers: Alinari, Anderson, Brogi, Bruckmann, Evangelisti, Faraglia, Giraudon, Gray, Leon, Lombardi, Moscioni, Poppi, Tuminello.
12309 photographic prints, c. 4700 postcards.
Not yet catalogued and not available for consultation

Cruickshank collection (c.1920): medieval and renaissance architecture and art.
4186 photographic prints, 277 glass negatives, 627 negatives.
Not yet catalogued and not available for consultation

John Marshall collection (1900-1928): Greek, Roman and Etruscan art.
2727 photographic prints, 331 glass negatives, 19 postcards.
Not yet catalogued and not available for consultation

Francis R. Rodd collection (1910-1920): Rodd, captain of the British Army, who took photographs during his military service.
376 photographic prints.
Not yet catalogued and not available for consultation

John Bryan Ward -Perkins collection (c.1940-c.1970): archaeological views of ancient and modern sites of the Roman world (North Africa, Europe, Italy), including photographs of the Inscriptions of Roman Triploitania glued onto cards (negatives were sent to the Libyan Society in London and should now be held by Newcastle University).
32755 photographic prints, 13222 negatives, 2219 strips negatives (35 mm), 2648 coloured slides, 61 postcards.
Available only Libya, South Etruria and War Damage series at www.bsrdigitalcollections.it

Air photographs collection (c.1960): Italian and North African air views.
2159 photographic prints, 558 glass negatives, 979 negatives.
Not yet catalogued but available for consultation

War damage collection (c. 1944): photographs of damaged monuments in Italy during the second World war collected by J.B. Ward-Perkins.
1176 photographic prints.
Not yet catalogued and not available for consultation

Miscellaneous collection: material including photographic prints of important photographers like Mc Pherson, Moscioni, Perini, Robert and Tuminello.
3695 photographic prints, 2111 glass negatives, 613 negatives, 465 negatives on 35 mm film, 2453 slides, 3695 postcards, over 8000 lantern slides.
Not yet catalogued and not available for consultation

BS collection (1911-2005): events, people, facts relating to The British School at Rome.
1347 photographic prints and negatives.
Not yet catalogued but available for consultation

BSR Fine arts collection (1912-1960): photographs of paintings, sculpture, architecture by Rome scholars.
3165 photographic prints, 1225 glass negatives.
Not yet catalogued but available for consultation

 

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