The Broken Obelisk, Karnac

19th centuryalbumen silver printphotographic process

Date

1857

Medium

Albumen print, pl. 33 from the album "Egypt and Palestine, Volume II" (1858/60)

Dimensions

Image/paper: 15.7 × 22.9 cm (6 3/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Album page: 29.7 × 42.7 cm (11 3/4 × 16 13/16 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Photography Gallery Fund

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