Daguerreotype View of a Crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City Taken By An Unidentified Italian Photographer in Rome, The Papal States (1845)

Daguerreotype view of a crowd in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City taken by an unidentified Italian photographer in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1845. One of the earliest photographs of Vatican City.

Source: The J. Paul Getty Museum.

Portrait of a Franciscan Friar Probably Taken in Rome, The Papal States (1860)

Portrait of a Franciscan monk probably taken in Rome, the Papal States, c. 1860.

Source: Rijksmuseum.