Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence

1842

Not on view

The Milanese publisher Ferdinando Artaria’s series of aquatints Vues d’Italie d’après le daguerrèotype (1840–47) represents one of the first attempts to reproduce the unique plates created by the daguerreotype process in a print publication. Each engraving was made by tracing a daguerreotype image and transferring it to a copper plate. A skilled artist then added clouds, staffage figures, and other transitory details that could not be captured by the camera. No daguerreotypes related to the series have been located; they were most likely destroyed or discarded after the tracing process. This hand-colored view of the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence’s Piazza della Signoria offered tourists a more faithful souvenir than traditional prints, since it was made directly from a photograph, and thus, from reality.

Artwork Details

Title: Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence
Artist: Ferdinando Artaria et Fils (Italian, 1805–1872)
Artist: Johann Jakob Falkeisen (Swiss, 1804–1883)
Date: 1842
Medium: Aquatint with applied color
Dimensions: Image: 6 3/8 × 8 7/16 in. (16.2 × 21.4 cm)
Mount: 11 in. × 14 9/16 in. (27.9 × 37 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Funds from various donors, 2016
Object Number: 2016.67
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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