From Spoleto, the sisters travelled north to Trevi and Campello sul Clitunno, the site of the ancient springs at the source of the Clitunno river. This image of the temple of the river god Clitumnus (Clitunno) was taken by one of the Bulwers when they visited the site on their tour of the major Umbrian towns of the Via Flaminia.
The images taken by all of these late 19th and early 20th-century amateur photographers—Dora Bulwer, Agnes Bulwer, Thomas Ashby, Robert Gardner, R.A.L. Fell, and Peter Paul Mackey—have left us with wonderful records of Italy and its monuments in their time. The photographs they took as they traversed the Italian landscape on foot, bicycle, horse, or carriage allow us to follow their paths along the ancient Roman roads of Italy.
For more information on the provenance and context of the photographic materials in this exhibition, see the BSR archival portal for the Thomas Ashby, Agnes and Dora Bulwer, Robert Gardner, and Peter Paul Mackey Collections.
This exhibition was designed and curated by Janet Wade (ECR Affiliate, Centre for Ancient Cultural Heritage and Environment (CACHE) and Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Archaeology, Macquarie University) and Alessandra Giovenco (Archivist, British School at Rome).
Photo by Agnes or Dora Bulwer: The temple at Campello sul Clitunno, near Trevi, between 1890–1913, Agnes and Dora Bulwer Collection, DAB-V.022
