Online Auction 19790The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection
SECONDO PIA (1855–1941)
Lot 73

SECONDO PIA (1855–1941)

Shroud of Turin, c. 1898

Closed14 October 2020

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USD 1,125

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SECONDO PIA (1855–1941)
Shroud of Turin, c. 1898
photogravure on chine collé
publisher credit, title and inscription in letterpress text, embossed with publisher credit stamp (margin); credited, titled and dated on affixed exhibition labels (frame backing board)
image: 6 ½ x 5 in. (16.5 x 12.7 cm.)
sheet: 14 ¾ x 10 ¾ in. (37.4 x 27.3 cm.)

Ken and Jenny Jacobson, Essex;
acquired from the above by the present owner, 2002.

Specialist note

'To make a photograph you need light and a bit of chemistry to fix ‘the shadow’ to a piece of paper. Does that make the actual Shroud of Turin the first photograph? That is something to consider, but here is a rare photograph of that piece of cloth.' – W.M. Hunt

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