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Then and now · Como

The Volta monument

The statue of Alessandro Volta, by Pompeo Marchesi, has stood in the middle of Piazza Volta in Como since 1838. The photochrom was printed by Photoglob of Zurich between 1890 and 1900; the photograph dates from 2013.

A late nineteenth-century photochrom: the statue of Alessandro Volta on a tall pedestal bearing the dedication “A Volta – La Patria”, inside an iron railing, in front of houses with green shutters.
1890–1900 · Photochrom by Photoglob, ZurichPhotochrom Print Collection · Public domain
The statue of Alessandro Volta on its tall pedestal against a blue sky, with clipped shrubs on either side and a building of several storeys behind.
2013 · PhotographMister No · CC BY 3.0

What the two pictures show

The statue and the pedestal with the dedication “A Volta – La Patria” are the same. In the photochrom the monument is enclosed by an iron railing; in the photograph there is no railing, and hedges and clipped shrubs stand on either side of the pedestal.