A view across Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
A black and white landscape photograph showing the harbour in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay. The terracotta roof of a building, a palm tree and a stone wall are in the foreground of the image. Several boats, ranging in size, are moored in the right of the image, before waterfront buildings leading up to a larger building on a hilltop, likely to be the Conception Palace (Palácio da Conceição), also known as the Episcopal Palace, where the bishops of the city resided. Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar) is visible in the distance. Original caption (handwritten beneath the photograph): ‘198; Rio de Janeiro’.