'Saponara...from the East' [earthquake damage] Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Young girls playing mums with

Young girls playing mums with their dolls and toy prams on the corner of Peace Street

Eight of the select vestry of St Paul's

and someone waves a Union flag from a balcony above

with hands of a sensitive refinement in painting worthy of the most respectful study"

February 1972 72-1465-057

'Saponara...from the East' [earthquake damage] Size:XL: 90 x 60cm Young girls playing mums withLandscape view of the destruction of Saponara, Italy, with some buildings still standing. Inscribed verso in pencil 'Saponara from the East looking West & a little N'. Repeated in pencil top left: 'Looking W. a little N.' and numbered upper right in pencil 'Photog 254'. Described in Mallet's 1862 Report, vol. 1 pp. 420. Collected by Robert Mallet. Original: albumen print. 1857 1858