[Villa I Tatti, Ponte a Mensola, near Settignano, Italy. (LOC)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
[Villa I Tatti, Ponte a Mensola, near Settignano, Italy. View from villa]
[1925 summer]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Cecil Ross Pinset, from 1909.
Landscape: Cecil Ross Pinset, from 1909, and with Geoffrey Scott from
1914. Associated Name: Bernard and Mary Smith (Mrs. Bernard) Berenson.
Today: House and restored gardens now Harvard University Center for
Renaissance Studies.
On slide (printed): "Edward Van Altena" and "71-79 W.
45th St., N.Y.C." (slide manufacturer).
Slide for lecturing on "Old World Gardens."
Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.
Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances
Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York:
Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 200.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16497
Call Number: LC-J717-X104- 41
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