Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Italy 1925

Villa Borromeo

American photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) commissioned the creation of more than a thousand hand-tinted glass-plate lantern-slides based on her own black-and-white photographic prints. For many years she gave illustrated garden lectures. These Italian views date from the summer of 1925.

Villa Borghese

Villa Borghese

Villa Gamberaia

Villa d'Este

Villa La Pietra

Villa Farnese

Villa Lante

Villa Lante

Villa Lante

Villa Lante

Villa Torlonia