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Main facade of the Palau de la Diputació, 1859. Author: Franck & Wigle. Fund: Provincial Council of Barcelona.

Date
1859
Archive
General Archive of the Provincial Council of Barcelona
Document type
Imatge fixa
Reference code
CAT-AGDB-R.31912
Link to the archive
Description

The photograph is the oldest known of the Generalitat building, before the facade was reformed as we see it now. In 1859 the Frenchmen François Marie Gobinet de Villecholes, better known as Franck, and Alexandre Wigle, took the photograph with the albumen technique, which had been used for a few years. To get a panoramic view of the entire building, they made a careful photomontage with two different shots. The Provincial Council approved the purchase of six copies of the photograph for the amount of twenty duros.