Photographer:          Fratelli Alinari, Florence (attribution)

Title:                          No. 258.  Faun in Repose, Vatican

Date:                         1890s

Medium:                    Lantern Slide

Size of Image:           2 3/8 x 4 inches

Size of Mount:          na

Condition:                 Rich tonal image, original tapes very good, penned paper label and distributor label.

Other:                      Handsome study of Praxiteles’ Faun in Repose which resides at the Vatican in Rome, Italy.  Nathaniel Hawthorn used this statue as his inspiration for the last of his great romances, “The Marble Faun.”

Fratelli Alinari is the longest running, oldest photographic firm  started by brothers Giuseppe, Leopoldo and Giuseppe Alinari in 1852.  Early on the brothers ran the business and made the views building a remarkable collection of period images. Over time they engaged the talents of many different photographers. Located in Florence they are still very much in business and said to have a photo archive of over 3.5 million images.

                                 The slide displays the publisher’s label which reads, “McIntosh Battery and Optical, Co., 141 & 143 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, ILL., U.S.A.”    Lyman McIntosh founded the McIntosh N.U. Supporter Co. in the early 1870s.  In 1881 he featured a microscope that was convertible to a stereopticon and dealt in projection microscopes, projection lanterns and other optical apparatus.   In the late 1880s the company name was changed to the McIntosh Battery & Optical Company offering microscopes into the 1890s until his death in 1890.

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