The Sphynx and the Great Pyramid, Geezeh

19th centuryphotographalbumen silver print

Date

1857

Medium

Albumen print, pl. 2 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume I" (1858)

Dimensions

Image/paper: 15.7 × 23 cm (6 3/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 29.5 × 42.8 cm (11 5/8 × 16 7/8 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Photography Gallery Fund

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