Sujet

Sketches from Naples - the Island of Nisida, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Sketches from Naples - the Island of Nisida, [Italy] 1857. On this site, in more modem times, has been erected an "Ergastolo" - a building which, by law, must be upon an island, and to which are confined those who are condemned to imprisonment for life. This place is reserved in an especial manner for priests, who, according to a convention concluded between Gregory XVI. and the Government of the Two Sicilies in 1834, must be confined in separate prisons...That large whitewashed building on the top strikes even the stranger as a suspicious-looking spot, a place of unknown suffering and woe...How sad and silent the place looks!'. From "Illustrated London News", 1857.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A75_220

Model release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

26,0Mo (1,7Mo) / 33,2cm x 19,6cm / 3920 x 2318 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation Europe sea Italy building buildings boat boats rocks rock harbour law trade port crime island British geography color lighthouse fortress Campania prison location century imprisonment Britain newspapers press imprisoned B&W Mediterranean Sea engraved engraving sentence Naples penitentiary Colour 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W Napoli white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper landscape Unknown Nisida 19th-century life sentence