Porta della Charta, Entrance to the Doge's Palace, ca. 1858
Albumen print
State/print versionprinted ca. 1858
Image dimensions27,7 × 22,1 cm
About the workThe photographer Carlo Ponti published widely popular collections of pictures of Venetian landmarks. The trade in tourist snapshots of the lagoon city was booming in the mid-nineteenth century. While this view of the Porta della Carta is a classic print, optical illusions were used in other images to bring their scenes to life. Ponti and his contemporaries were early contributors to the mass media dissemination of the idea of Venice that still exists in the popular imagination to this day.
AccessionGift 2019
Provenance[...]; 2019 erworben durch Schenkung von Kicken Berlin in Erinnerung an Rudolf Kicken
Inventory numberF.2019.460
