P1985.30.48: A Tourist Climbs the Grand Pyramid
Photographs
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- P1985.30.48
- People
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Félix Bonfils, French (Saint-Hippolyte-du-Fort (Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France) 1831 - 1885 Alès (Gard, Languedoc-Roussillon, France))
- Title
- A Tourist Climbs the Grand Pyramid
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: Ascension de la grande pyramide par un touriste
Series/Book Title: What I Saw in Egypt - Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- album page, photograph
- Date
- c. 1880
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, Egypt
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/101056
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Albumen silver print mounted on fabric affixed to album page.
- Technique
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 27.9 x 22 cm (11 x 8 11/16 in.)
mount: 26 x 31 cm (10 1/4 x 12 3/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- label: Ink inscription on white paper "Mounting the big pyramid to the (?) (?) a level of about 20 feet square pulled up over the big stones feet-high - and jumping down from above the stone - (?) flat and once accomplished fully suffices."
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
- Accession Year
- 1985
- Object Number
- P1985.30.48
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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