Entitled: "Pompeii, Voie de Pomp矇e. Monument de Marmaria" photographed by Firmin-Eug癡ne Le Dien, 1853. Between 1852 and 1853 Le Dien traveled to Italy with the painters L矇on G矇rard and Alexandre de Vonne. On a journey to Rome, Naples, Pompeii, and the Amalfi Coast, Le Dien produced architectural photographs of monuments and landscapes using the process of waxed paper negatives invented by Le Gray. This view of Pompey's Lane is a masterful evocation of the street as a visual marker of history. It bears the stamp Le Dien et Gustave Le Gray, attesting to the successful collaboration between amateur and professional. Le Gray likely printed his prot矇g矇's negative in his own Paris studio. The city of Pompeii was an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 13 to 20 feet ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.