Ashby and his companions travelled through Italy on foot, bicycle, horseback, carriage, and train. Their love of the country and search for the remains of roads, monuments, and ancient sites took them through contemporary urban and rural landscapes, and they walked and rode in all weather, even in the snow.
This exhibition is part of an ongoing project to map the itineraries of these pioneering 19th and 20th-century British topographers, archaeologists, and amateur photographers in Italy, and to create updated visual records of the cultural and environmental transformation of Italy’s ancient Roman roads.
Photo by Thomas Ashby: Two of Ashby's companions on the ancient Via Sacra (or Via Triumphalis/Trionfale) in the snow, Monte Cavo, 1922, Thomas Ashby Collection, TA-LIX.026
