'Saponara...from the East' [earthquake damage] King Lear White Street

White Street

'Billingsgate eloquence'

A chair mender with her child standing outside a wine shop in Soho Square

Johnny Quigley

while in the meantime performing hair raising action shots for other films

'Saponara...from the East' [earthquake damage] King Lear White StreetLandscape 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