c. 1870Vienna
St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna
Michael Frankenstein, photographer.
Elevated photograph
c. 1870·Vienna
St Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna
Michael Frankenstein, photographer.
Elevated photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The Stephansdom photographed with the roofs and streets around it. This is not a bird’s-eye of all Vienna. It is a camera record of the cathedral and the city’s fabric at that spot, about 1870.
- Image type
- Elevated photograph
- Structure
- St Stephen’s Cathedral (Stephansdom)
- Region
- Europe
- Present status
- Surviving — The cathedral still stands. This plate is the building in about 1870, not a later restoration photographed as if it were 1870.
- Source
- Period photograph reproduced in Ciuffoletti, Das Reich der Habsburger; Wikimedia Commons scan.
- License
- Public domain (Frankenstein died 1918; photograph c. 1870).
Collections where this plate appears
- 02Old World photographyStreet scenes, demolition, construction, rooftops, a dome, a completed boulevard. The camera on the ground or on a known high point — not a lithograph pretending to be a lens.
- 05Monumental architecturePeriod photographs of named structures. Documented identification first. Present status is a later fact recorded beside the plate — surviving, altered, burned, demolished, reconstructed, replaced — not a verdict the image is asked to prove.