Rome's iconic Column of the Immaculate Conception rises against a pale Roman sky in this rare albumen cabinet photograph taken by Edmond Behles from his Via Mario de' Fiori studio — the ornate marble base with its four seated prophet figures is rendered in crisp detail, and the surrounding 19th-century streetscape shows the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide and neighboring palazzi exactly as they appeared before Rome became the capital of unified Italy, with scarcely a soul on the cobblestones to blur the long exposure. Edmond Behles (active Rome c. 1860–1880) was one of the leading commercial photographers of papal and early-Italian-kingdom Rome, winning gold medals at international exhibitions — his studio's French-language back-mark proudly lists "Grandes Médailles d'Or" alongside portrait medallions of Napoleon III and Vittorio Emanuele II, dating this print firmly to the 1860s–early 1870s. The column itself was erected in 1857 by Pope Pius IX to commemorate the 1854 dogma of the Immaculate Conception; Behles documented it at an early moment in its public life. This is a true albumen cabinet photograph (CDV/large-format), not a printed postcard, though it is included in this postcard-format collection; the reverse carries the full Behles studio imprint printed by "Cie. Richter & Cie." No postmark, no message.