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Maker(s):Malovich, G. [J.]
Title:Miramar, Trieste
Date Made:ca. 1870's
Type:Photograph
Materials:albumen print
Place Made:Italy
Measurements:mount: 12 x 16 1/8 in.; 30.48 x 40.9575 cm; image: 8 1/2 x 12 in.; 21.59 x 30.48 cm
Accession Number:  SC 1982.38.1043
Credit Line:Purchased with Hillyer-Tryon-Mather Fund, with funds given in memory of Nancy Newhall (Nancy Parker, class of 1930) and in honor of Beaumont Newhall, and with funds given in honor of Ruth Wedgwood Kennedy
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
Miramar Castle, Trieste, Italy; built in 1856 for Maximillian, Archduke of Austria (House of Hapsburg; Younger brother of Archduke Franz Joesph of Austria) and wife Charlotte of Belgium during tenure as governor general of Lombardo-Venetia; left Trieste to accept Crown of Mexico in 1864, failed and was sentenced to death by Mexican Firing Squad, carried out in 1867; Castle and Garden design by Carl Junker; extensive cliff, seashore park, 22 hectares (54 acres), tropical trees, plants; Miramare Park overlooks Adriatic Sea, Grignano, Gulf of Trieste; Gardener Anton Jelinek (Bohemian); ligneous forest--trees and bushes; Castle furnished and decorated by Franz Hofmann, Julius Hofmann;

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